Studies in Biblical and Cuneiform Law

Eslinger, Lyle; Westbrook, R. Frederick

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“…13 According to this rhetoric, a fundamental obligation of kings or even the purpose 11. Westbrook (1988;followed by Dobbs-Allsopp, 1994) focused too narrowly on the Hebrew verb ‫גזל‬ (= "to rob/steal/appropriate"), and thus, associated this judicial procedure only with the misappropriation of property by unscrupulous officials. Parker (1997: 13) offered a broader understanding of this form of adjudication: "Under such circumstances [an abuse of judicial power], those who had been wronged addressed a petition to a higher authority.…”

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The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel

Johnson

2023

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

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Through the lens of comparative legal history, this study re-examines the story of the Wise Woman of Tekoa (2 Sam. 14.2–24) as a narrativized legal petition—an ancient Near Eastern epistolary sub-genre known from cuneiform and alphabetic inscriptions. This brief juridical parable offers a unique account of justice and adjudication largely independent of its ideological depiction in the Pentateuchal law codes, making it a critical text in the study of biblical law. In particular, it evokes two distinct forms of judicial wisdom in the context of legal self-help and royal adjudication. By comparing and contrasting this parable with other texts dealing with similar themes, I outline the diverse ways biblical writers explained the intersections of law, wisdom, and justice.

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The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel

Johnson

2023

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

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Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible

Schipper

2009

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Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible examines the intimate relationship between parables and conflict in the Hebrew Bible. Challenging the scholarly consensus, Jeremy Schipper argues that parables do not function as appeals to change their audience's behavior. Nor do they serve to diffuse tensions in regards to the various conflicts in which their audiences are involved. Rather, the parables function to help create, intensify, and justify judgments and hostile actions against their audiences. In order to examine how the parables accomplish these functions, this book pays particular attention to issues of genre and recent developments in genre theory, shifting the central issues in the interpretation of Hebrew Bible parables.

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Supersessionist or Complementary?: Reassessing the Nature of Legal Revision in the Pentateuchal Law Collections

Berman¹

2016

Journal of Biblical Literature

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Studies in Biblical and Cuneiform Law

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The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel

The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel

Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible

Supersessionist or Complementary?: Reassessing the Nature of Legal Revision in the Pentateuchal Law Collections

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