TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cocco,Francesco
TI  - The Torah as a place of refuge: biblical criminal law and the Book of Numbers 
T2  - Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe,
SN  - 9783161541384
AV  - BS1265.6.L3 C63 2016
PY  - 2016///
PB  - Mohr Siebeck
KW  - Bible
KW  - Numbers
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Burden of proof
KW  - Judgments, Criminal
KW  - Fair trial
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-173) and indexes; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; The Law in the Bible and in the Ancient Near East --; "Biblical law ": ambiguities, problems and challenges of a definition --; "Does it make sense to speak of 'biblical law'?" : Epistemological problems --; Methodological difficulties : the problem of the sources --; Comparison with roman law --; Comparison with anglo-saxon law --; Juridical models of the 19th Century : between 'evolutionism' and 'diffusionism' --; The 'evolutionist' model --; The 'diffusionist' model --; The authority of the law and the law-text relationship --; The authority of the law according to the statutory model --; The authority of the law according to the customary model --; The law-text relationship in the two models --; The affirmation of statutory law in Europe --; The law of the ancient Near East --; The principal Mesopotamian juridical collections --; The juridical tradition of ancient Egypt --; General considerations on the legislative collections of the ANE --; Statutory Interpretation : the law of the ANE as positive or prescriptive law --; Customary interpretation of the laws of the ANE --; Elements of continuity between the laws of the ANE and biblical law --; Peculiar elements of biblical law compared with the laws of the ANE --; "What, then, is biblical law?" an attempt at synthesis --; Biblical Criminal Law and the Book of Numbers --; Criteria distinguishing 'civil law' and 'criminal law' in the biblical legislative texts --; The State of the art in recent literature --; A proposal to distinguish the norms based on the nature of conflict --; Criteria for the cataloguing and structuring of biblical laws --; Situational or 'external' criterion of cataloguing --; 'Internal' criterion of cataloguing of the laws --; The penal legislation in the book of Numbers --; The legislative texts of the book of Numbers : general considerations --; The general structure of the book of Numbers --; The Organisation of the legislative material of the book of Numbers --; "Repetition or Reformulation?" : the Curious Case of Num 35:9-34 --; The pericope in its literary context : demarcation and structure --; The beginning of the pericope --; The conclusion of the pericope --; The internal articolation of the pericope : a structural hypothesis --; Exegetical analysis of Num 35,9-34 --; Injunction to designate "cities of refuge" (vv. 10b-15) --; The meaning of ... --; The meaning of ... --; The meaning of ... and its specific function in Num 35,9-34 --; The meaning of the syntagma ... --; The interpretation of Num 35,12 and its consequences for the hermeneutics of the whole pericope --; The meaning of ... --; The meaning of ... and ... --; The conclusion of Num 35,15 --; Determination of the different examples of homicide and their regulation (vv. 16-29) --; The particularly wilful case, or malicious murder (vv. 16-21) --; The unintentional case, or manslaughter (vv. 22-23) --; The key function of Num 35,24 --; Procedure to be adopted in the case of homicide (vv. 24-29) --; Procedural clarifications and theologico-religious conclusion (vv. 30-34) --; Procedural clarifications (vv. 30-32) --; Theologico-religious conclusion (vv. 33-34) --; "From Law to Law" : understanding the novelty of Num 35,9-34 in the light of selected Biblical Criminal Laws --; Comparison with thematically related texts --; The case of homicide in the mishpat of Ex 21,12-14 --; The legislation in the cities of refuge in Deut 19,1-13 --; The relationship between Deut 19,1-13 and Deut 4,41-43 --; The internal structure of Deut 19,1-13 --; The introduction of the legislation on the cities of refuge (Deut 19,1-3) --; Purpose and demarcation of the area of the validity of the law (Deut 19,4-10) --; Regulation of the cases of murder (Deut 19,11-13) --; Summary considerations on the legislation of Deut 19,1-13 --; The legislation on the cities of refuge in Josh 20,1-9 --; The differences between the Hebrew and the Greek texts of Josh 20,1-9 --; The proposal of A. Rofé : the Greek text of LXXB is the archetype of Josh 20 --; The proposal of L. Schmidt : the Grundbestand of the Masoretic Text is the archetype of Josh 20 --; Conclusions on the interdependence of the four biblical texts analysed --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index of Biblical References (selective) --; Authors Index --; Subject Index
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