Legal friction law, narrative, and identity politics in biblical Israel /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
c2010.
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| Series: | Studies in biblical literature,
v. 78 |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10516874 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 3. Illustrations of the connection between biblical narratives and laws taken from Exodus-Samuel and primeval history
- Strike! Moses' unsuccessful attempt to resolve disputes reflects an attempt to enforce the covenant code
- Surviving the construction industry : Pharaoh's decrees force the Israelites to violate the Sabbath and the covenant code
- The remains of the day : Manna, God's seed, is resurrected by the Sabbath like the resurrection of two boys by Elijah and Elisha
- Overexposed : the Israelites' suspicion that Moses had violated the prohibition of exposing one's nakedness before God leads to the sin of the golden calf
- Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow : 'the morrow of the Sabbath' in Leviticus 23:11-17 commemorates a 'high-handed' exodus
- So goodbye, dear, and amen : the priestly law of the jealous husband transforms the deuteronomic law of divorce
- Divine dermatology : Miriam's scale disease resembles a food forbidden in Leviticus 11 and constitutes a hidden polemic condoning intermarriage
- Holy war : interplay between the deuteronomic law of warfare (Deuteronomy 20:1-4), Exodus 14, and Isaiah 52:7-12
- Blood suckers : the deuteronomic law of Amalek reflects the concern for underdogs
- Le(vite) divorce : the fate of the concubine at Giveah reflects the deuteronomic law of divorce
- Le mariage : the Benjaminites' marriage echoes the holiness code's marriage sacrament described in the law of the horticultural holiness (Leviticus 19:23-25)
- Hemorrhoid city : the Philistines' plague of hemorrhoids alludes to Pharaoh's fecal heart syndrome and to a deuteronomic law regarding the disposal of excrement
- Sticks and stones : holiness code's law of the blasphemer and Talion law allude to events involving Shimei the Son of Gera and Goliath
- Beyond the fringes : the tassel law cited in Ruth counters anti-davidic polemics associated with Tamar and Lot's daughters
- Pt. 4. Primeval history (Genesis 1:1-11:25) encourages the Judean exiles to return to Judah
- Judeans in space and time : the first creation narrative supports the Judeans' mandate of subduing the Land of Canaan
- Noah's nakedness : the curse of Canaan provides a rationale for delegitimizing the indigenous population of Canaan
- Babel : the destruction of the Tower of Babel encourages the Judean exiles to return to Judah in accordance with Genesis 1:28.