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Oral Law of Ancient Israel

Oral Law of Ancient Israel

Hardcover

Series: Coniectanea Biblica

Bible StudiesGeneral Law

ISBN10: 1978715218
ISBN13: 9781978715219
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Published: Oct 12 2022
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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