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Moshe Weinfeld. The Promise of the Land: The Inheritance of the Land of Canaan by the Israelites. Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies 3. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xxi, 327 pp.
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1. Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972).
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8. Weinfeld's Greek example (p. 9) can be somewhat improved: see the parallel of dike and themis “justice and law” at Odyssey 9.215, Pindar Isthmian 9 fragment
9. With “confirm a treaty” ( e.g. Genesis 6:18) Weinfeld compares Latin foedus firmare (p. 235), which I can document at Vergil Aeneid 12.212 firmabant foedera.
10. Gordon, Cyrus H., “Vergil and the Bible World,” in Gratz College Anniversary Volume, ed. I.D., Passow and S. T. Lachs (Philadelphia: Gratz College, 1971), pp. 111–130; revising his study “Vergil and the Near East,” Ugaritica 6 (1969): 267–288.Google Scholar
11. See Westbrook, Raymond, “The Nature and Origin of the Twelve Tables,” Zeitschrift der Savigny-StiftungjurRechtsgeschichte, Romanistische Abteilung 105 (1988): 74–121. Westbrook compares, on the one hand, the casuistic method of the Roman Twelve Tables, the Akkadian codes, and the Covenant (Exodus 21–22) and Deuteronomic (Deuteronomy 21–25) Codes; on the other hand, the “scientific” method shared by Gaius and the Mishna.Google Scholar