A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
1021 nence of the Hittites as agents in the transaction, point to an ancient biblical tradition. 7.1.2 Sale of persons ar ...
1022 7.3 Pledge The two possible forms of security for loans are the possessory pledge, which the borrow ...
1023 11:13 relates that Jephthah’s army was composed of “empty ones,” a term that probably means those emptied of their p ...
1024 Should the debt result in debt slavery, the debt slave must be treated like a hired laborer (Lev. 2 ...
1025 limiting his economic power by making the release periodic, not dependent on the initiative of governing authorities ...
1026 7.6.3 Judah contracts for the services of what he thinks is a pros- titute, promising as payment a ...
1027 7.9 The most extraordinary contract recorded in the Bible is between two mothers, who agree to eat each other’s babi ...
1028 punishment is never imposed for property offenses, but is reserved for homicide, adultery, and (oth ...
1029 also happen if a man divorced his wife and remarried her after she was divorced or widowed by a second husband ( Jer ...
1030 of totally accidental homicide, such as cutting down trees and hav- ing the ax fly offand hit someo ...
1031 carefully and it collapsed, killing a minor child of the dweller, the child of the builder is to be put to death. Bi ...
1032 8.2.8.1 An accidental homicide is provided with a place to flee (Exod. 21:13). Joshua set up six Ci ...
1033 8.2.9 Negligent homicide incurs bloodguilt: the man who builds his house without a parapet around the roof so that a ...
1034 8.4 Sexual Offenses 8.4.1 Adultery^75 In a culture that allows both prostitution and polygyny, the ...
1035 8.4.2 Rape Deuteronomy recognizes that rape is a crime of violence: “the mat- ter is as when a man rises up and murd ...
1036 8.4.4.1 Incest The rules regarding incest are formulated in terms of forbidden women (Lev. 18; 20:1 ...
1037 8.4.4.7 Certain forbidden relationships call for the death penalty. The father’s wife and the man who sleeps with he ...
1038 8.5.4 Moving land boundary markers (thereby stealing land) is for- bidden (Deut. 19:14). The one wh ...
1039 8.6.4 Injury to Animals 8.6.4.1 One who kills another’s animal must replace it (Lev. 24:18), but whoever borrows an ...
1040 8.7.4 Perversion of justice is serious offense, and the one who takes money to punish or execute an ...
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