Making a Case: The Practical Roots of Biblical Law

ISBN-13: 9780190911805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 216 str.

Sara J. Milstein

Recenzje

Sara Milstein's new book provides a stimulating challenge to the hypothesis that the non-Priestly laws of Exodus and Deuteronomy were directly inspired by Mesopotamian law collections such as the Laws of Hammurabi (LH)...The book also raises exciting avenues for further research, such as the relationship between biblical law and Mesopotamian texts from the first millennium. Milstein justifies her focus on third-and second-millennium...It also opens the door to robust comparison with a wide variety of legal and literary genres in first-millennium Mesopotamia.

O autorze

Sara J. Milstein is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Her last monograph, Tracking the Master Scribe: Revision through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature (OUP, 2016) was the recipient of ASOR's Frank Moore Cross Award. Milstein's research has been funded by the Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Killam Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.