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Oral Law of Ancient Israel

Oral Law of Ancient Israel

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£77.00

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781978715219
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 15/09/2022
Width: 15.9 cm
Height: 23.7 cm

This book presents a new window on the legal system of Ancient Israel. Building on the understanding that Israel was a society where writing was the medium for some forms of discourse but not others, where written texts were performed orally and rewritten from oral performances, Robert D. Miller II, OFS, examines law and jurisprudence in this oral-and-literate world. Using Iceland as an ethnographic analogy, Miller shows how law was practiced, performed, and transmitted; the way written artifacts of the law fit into oral performance and transmission; and the relationship of the detritus of law that survives in the Hebrew Bible, both Torah and Proverbs, to that earlier social world.

Chapter One: Approaches to Ancient Israel’s Legal World

Chapter Two: Icelandic Oral-Written Law

Interlude: Gothic Law as Control

Resume: Oral-Written Customary Law

Chapter Three: Oral-Written Customary Law in Ancient Israel

Chapter Four: Oral Law and Proverbs

Robert D. Miller II, OFS

Robert D. Miller II, O.F.S., is Ordinary Professor of Old Testament at the Catholic University of America and a research affiliate with the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria.

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