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Hebraic law is the ancient Hebrew law codes found in the Old Testament, similar to other Middle Eastern law codes. It consists of two types of law: casuistic, which contains conditional statements and punishments, and apodictic, which are divine commands.
This chapter explores the history and literature of law in ancient Israel, showing how law was embedded in social, political, and religious practices and discourses. It argues that law in biblical Israel was not a system or a profession, but a cultural mode that imbued all facets of life.
Israeli law, the legal practices and institutions of modern Israel. In ancient times, when the people of Israel lived in their homeland, they created their own law: the law of the Torah and the law of the Mishna and the Talmud (see Torah; Mishna).
Even before Israel receives laws at Sinai, Exodus tells how Jethro the Midianite advises Moses to establish judges, a unique origin story for the judicial system with no parallel in ancient Near Eastern law collections.
Learn how the kings of Israel and Judah were chosen, ruled and judged by Yhwh and his people according to the biblical texts. Explore the biblical law codes, prophetic critiques and historical examples of kingship in ancient Israel.
Through history the laws kept piling up-not, however in the form of explicit additions and revisions to the covenant code, Exodus 20-23, but in the form of two new codes: the holiness code of Leviticus and the Deuteronomic code.
The Israelite laws had their origins in three functions: first, to secure expectations of socially acceptable behavior by criminal law, second, to regulate conflicts by compensation law (thereby decreasing violence), and third, to regulate intercourse with the divine sphere by sacral law. The form-historical differentiation of Israelite law ...
Deuteronomy is a classical example of that kind of ancient constitution, designed to adapt the Torah-as-constitution presented in the first four books of the Pentateuch to the Jewish polity once the people are established in Eretz Israel.
The study begins with cuneiform law from Mesopotamia and the Hittite Empire, and then shows how ancient Israel's development of the idea of divine revelation of law creates a cluster of constraints that would be expected to impede legal revision or amendment.
Ancient Israel: Slavery, Servanthood, and Social Welfare Overview. This article corrects the common misconception that slavery/servanthood in the legal code of ancient Israel was comparable to the harsh slavery of other ancient cultures and the early United States.