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Article 104 – The size of the stone used in stoning shall not be too large to kill the convict by one or two throws and at the same time shall not be too small to be called a stone. [40] Depending upon the details of the case, the stoning may be initiated by the judge overseeing the matter or by one of the original witnesses to the adultery. [40]
Being participant in sexual activity, in which a betrothed woman loses her virginity to another man [17]; Raping a betrothed woman in the countryside. [18]Adultery with a married woman. [19]
RANE: Readings from the Ancient Near East: Primary Sources for Old Testament Study. Baker Academic. September 2002. ISBN 978-0801022920. Mercer, S.A.B. (1913). Extra-Biblical Sources for Hebrew and Jewish History. Longmans & Company. ISBN 978-0-7905-1132-0.
Other sources, such as Josephus, disagree. The issue is highly debated because of its relevance to the New Testament trial of Jesus. [48] [49] Ancient rabbis did not like the idea of capital punishment, and interpreted the texts in a way that made the death penalty virtually non-existent.
The Sabbath-Breaker Stoned (Numbers 15). James Tissot c.1900. Capital punishment in the Bible refers to instances in the Bible where death is called for as a punishment and also instances where it is proscribed or prohibited.
The Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions refers to a set of jar and plaster inscriptions, stone incisions, and art discovered at the site of Kuntillet Ajrud. They were found at a unique Judean crossroads location that was among an unusual number and variety of vessels and other inscriptions. [4] They date to the late 9th century BC [5] in the Sinai ...
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Supplement series. Vol. 19. Sheffield: JSOT Press. ISBN 9780567405241. OCLC 276307111. ———; Sawyer, John F. A., eds. (1983). Midian, Moab, and Edom: the history and archaeology of late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and north-west Arabia. Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Supplement series ...