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Author : Samuel E. Loewenstamm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Comparative Studies in Biblical and Ancient Oriental Literatures written by Samuel E. Loewenstamm and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard S. Jackson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567578690
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical Law written by Bernard S. Jackson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains and illustrates a variety of semiotic issues in the study of biblical law. Commencing with a review of relevant literature in linguistics, philosophy, semiotics and psychology, it examines biblical law in terms of its users, its medium and its message. It criticizes our use of the notion of 'literal meaning', at the level of both words and sentences, preferring to see meaning constructed by the narrative images that the language evokes. These images may come from either social experience or cultural narratives. Speech performance is important, both in the negotiation of the law and the narratives of its communication. Non-linguistic semiotic phenomena, utilizing other senses and involving such notions as space and time, also need to be taken into account. For the early biblical period, at least, conceptions of law based upon modern models need to be replaced by the notion of 'wisdom-laws'. Amongst the issues addressed in the course of the argument are the structure of the Decalogue, the role in the law of (Greenberg's) 'postulates', 'covenant renewal' and 'talionic punishment'.
Author : Jackson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900466839X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Essays in Jewish and Comparative Legal History written by Jackson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chung Man Anna Lo
Publisher : Langham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786410044
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Laws of the Imperialized written by Chung Man Anna Lo and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being the first legal corpus in the biblical canon, Exodus 19–24 is a law collection that belonged to a people living under the shadow of empire. Using an integrated approach of postcolonial studies and historical-comparative analysis, this important study analyzes the relationship between the laws given to the Israelites on Mount Sinai and cuneiform law collections. Dr. Anna Lo skillfully integrates postcolonial understandings of the colonized people to explore how the similarities and differences reflect the imperialized authors’ wrestling with the imperial legal metanarrative and subjugation of their time. This investigation into the dynamic of acceptance, ambivalence, and resistance invites attention to this selection of Scripture as a work of conservative revolutionists. Dr. Lo’s thorough work provides an important way forward for scholars to consider responses of the imperialized to empires in the past as well as to reflect on their own response to hegemonic domination today.
Author : Reuven Yaron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Laws of Eshnunna written by Reuven Yaron and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan E. Rayner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Theory of Contracts in Islamic Law:A Comparative Analysis with Particular Reference to Modern Legislation in Kuwait, Bahrain and the U. A. E. written by Susan E. Rayner and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-11-25 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the discovery of oil in the Middle East an increasing number of important contracts must be framed in accordance with the Shari'a. Moreover various factors have helped to create among Muslims a more acute sense of an original Islamic identity & a collective feeling that Shari's should govern their lives not only with regard to personal & family matters but also as a valid & reasonable corpus of commercial & civil laws. The ban on taking interest (riba) & the rejection of chance contracts (gharar) are two features of an Islamic law of contract which contrast with the secular man-made legal systems of the West. This book is concerned with these two Islamic Prohibitory rules & with the interest-free banking system which has developed therefrom. This is a new enlarged edition where the comparative examination of the topics of the book is updated & furthermore extended to cover the Shi'a Ja'fari fiqh. As a result all aspects are examined in the light of the teachings of the four Sunni schools -which hold authority in the Arab states & in Pakistan -of the Ibadis strongly present in Oman & of the Shi'a Ja'faris prevalent in Iran & largely present in Iraq, Bahrein, Kuweit & Lebanon. The new edition will confirm the use of the initial one as a text book with a particular appeal to academics & practising lawyers. It also provides an insight into the religious & idealogical foundations claimed by Islamic banking.
Author : T. M. Lemos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191087440
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts written by T. M. Lemos and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence and Personhood in Ancient Israel and Comparative Contexts is the first book-length work on personhood in ancient Israel. T. M. Lemos reveals widespread intersections between violence and personhood in both this society and the wider region. Relations of domination and subordination were incredibly important to the culture and social organization of ancient Israel often resulting in these relations becoming determined by the boundaries of personhood itself. Personhood was malleable--it could be and was violently erased in many social contexts. This study exposes a violence-personhood-masculinity nexus in which domination allowed those in control to animalize and brutalize the bodies of subordinates. Lemos argues that in particular social contexts in the contemporary "western" world, this same nexus operates, holding devastating consequences for particular social groups.
Author : John Woodland Welch
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Biblical Law Bibliography written by John Woodland Welch and published by Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorted by subjects and by authors, this is an extensive bibliography of Biblical law, compiled by a professor of law at Brigham Young University, USA.
Author : Bernard Jackson S
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134959494
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Jewish Law Annual Volume 5 written by Bernard Jackson S and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 15 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1-14 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly material meeting the highest academic standards. The volume contains six articles diverse in their scope and focus, encompassing legal, historical, textual, comparative and conceptual analysis, as well as a survey of recent literature and a chronicle of cases of interest. Among the topics covered are: lying in rabbinical court proceedings; unjust enrichment; can a witness serve as judge in the same case?; Caro's Shulham Arukh v. Maimonides' Mishne Torah in the Yemenite community, the New Jersey eruv wards.
Author : Bernard S Jackson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004669388
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Jewish Law Annual written by Bernard S Jackson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joshua Berman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190658800
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Inconsistency in the Torah written by Joshua Berman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than viewing inconsistencies in the Torah as signs of revision, this book identifies precursors for these phenomena in ancient Near Eastern writings. It claims that Enlightenment and German historicist influences corrupted critical study of the Bible, and calls for a return to the more modest agenda set out by Spinoza.
Author : Carolien Oudshoorn
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047421361
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Relationship between Roman and Local Law in the Babatha and Salome Komaise Archives written by Carolien Oudshoorn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-08-31 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of the Babatha archive provided scholars with unique opportunities for reconstructing the life of Jews in second-century Arabia. Although legal issues and especially the question of the relationship between Roman and local law have received attention in a number of publications, this study presents the first complete overview of the legal situation as presented in the Babatha as well as the Salome Komaise archive, using references to law in the documents' texts as the key element for understanding what law is applicable to these documents. By distinguishing between two levels in the papyri, of substantive and of formal law, a new understanding is reached of the part both Roman and local law played in legal reality.
Author : Hananya Goodman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438404379
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Between Jerusalem and Benares written by Hananya Goodman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book stands at the crossroads between Jerusalem and Benares and opens a long awaited conversation between two ancient religious traditions. It represents the first serious attempt by a group of eminent scholars of Judaic and Indian studies to take seriously the cross-cultural resonances among the Judaic and Hindu traditions. The essays in the first part of the volume explore the historical connections and influences between the two traditions, including evidence of borrowed elements and the adaptation of Jewish Indian communities to Hindu culture. The essays in the second part focus primarily on resonances between particular conceptual complexes and practices in the two traditions, including comparative analyses of representations of Veda and Torah, legal formulations of dharma and halakhah, and conceptions of union with the Divine in Hindu Tantra and Kabbalah.
Author : Thomas Kazen
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161624653
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Revenge, Compensation, and Forgiveness in the Ancient World written by Thomas Kazen and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. J. M. Roberts
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575065355
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Bible and the Ancient Near East written by J. J. M. Roberts and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2002-06-23 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in this volume is a collection of the shorter writings of one of the more innovative scholars working on the relationship between the writings of the Hebrew Bible and its ancient Near East context. Topics include: ANE environment, literature of the ANE, myth versus history, Nebuchadnezzar I’s Elamite crisis, Job and the Israelite religious tradition, motif of the weeping God in Jeremiah, lament tradition in ANE, the hand of Yahweh, and whether God lies.
Author : Daisy Yulin Tsai
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110364425
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Human Rights in Deuteronomy written by Daisy Yulin Tsai and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humanitarian concerns of the biblical slave laws and their rhetorical techniques rarely receive scholarly attention, especially the two slave laws in Deuteronomy. Previous studies that compared the biblical and the ANE laws focused primarily on their similarities and developed theories of direct borrowing. This ignored the fact that legal transplants were common in ancient societies. This study, in contrast, aims to identify similarities and dissimilarities in order to pursue an understanding of the underlying values promoted within these slave laws and the interests they protected. To do so, certain innovative methodologies were applied. The biblical laws examined present two diverse legal concepts that contrast to the ANE concepts: (1) all agents are regarded as persons and should be treated accordingly, and (2) all legal subjects are seen as free, dignified, and self-determining human beings. In addition, the biblical laws often distinguish an offender’s “criminal intent,” by which a criminal’s rights are also considered. Based on these features, the biblical laws are able to articulate YHWH’s humanitarian concerns and the basic concepts of human rights presented in Deuteronomy.
Author : Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567134636
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)
Download or read book The Transformation of Torah from Scribal Advice to Law written by Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent discussion of biblical law sees it either as a response to socio-economic factors or as an intellectual tradition. In either case it is viewed as the product of elites that form an international community drawing on a common culture. This book takes that fundamental discussion a step further by proposing that 'law' is an inappropriate term for the biblical codes, and that they represent, rather, the 'moral advice' of scribes working independently of the legal framework and appealing to Yahweh as authority. Only by prolonged exegesis and through the transformation of Judaean religion does this 'advice' take the form of divine law binding on Jews.
