A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
1001 4.2.1.2 Priests, who did not own territory, were paid with a portion of the sacrifice. Each priest kept gifts given ...
1002 4.3 Foreigners^31 4.3.1 The resident alien of Israel, the ger, was subject to the laws of Israel an ...
1003 4.4.2 The narratives show that before the monarchy, women could rise to public authority within the household. On th ...
1004 4.5.2.2 Foreign slaves could be acquired by war, purchase, or birth. If a besieged city accepts the ...
1005 “season, time.” Comparison with Near Eastern laws suggests that 'onahmust have been a provision for oil.^37 4.5.3.5 ...
1006 4.5.4.3 According to the Book of the Covenant, if a man sells his daughter as an "amah, she goes ou ...
1007 4.5.4.8 A slave could also be freed by running away. According to Deuteronomy, a runaway slave is not to be returned ...
1008 a banquet, given by the girl’s father (Gen. 29:22). The groom took the bride home to his tent (Gen. ...
1009 year, an indication that there were no more "amaharrangements for acquiring wives. b) Deuteronomy provides for captu ...
1010 Abraham and Isaac passed their wives offas their sisters (Gen. 12, 20, 26); Lot and the Ephraimite ...
1011 ('erwat dabar), she married another man, and she became free again when the second husband died or divorced her with ...
1012 in her father’s house until Shelah would grow up. When Tamar realized what had happened, she disgui ...
1013 consort Bilhah (Gen. 35:22), and the story of Absalom’s revolt includes an incident in which David left ten concubin ...
1014 making the first-born of his favored wife his first-born; instead, it demands that the first to be ...
1015 5.2.4.2 Having a child with a prostitute, a custom known from else- where in the ancient Near East, is recorded as t ...
1016 or buy-back (Lev. 25:23–24); and the “redeemer,” the nearest kin, was encouraged to buy the land ba ...
1017 case was not quite typical, for she came as the king was listening to Gehazi (Elisha’s servant) tell the story of El ...
1018 6.2 Inheritance Sons inherit from their father. If there are no sons, then the man’s brother inheri ...
1019 if no brothers, an uncle (Num. 27:1–11). A separate storyette relates that the clan heads of the tribe to which the ...
1020 C No contractual documents survive from ancient Israel, but Jeremiah refers to sales docum ...
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