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Homicide in the biblical world / Pamela Barmash.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Description: xvi, 253 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521834686
  • 0521547733 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KB4050 .B37 2005
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Contents:
Introduction -- A first case: the story of Cain and Abel -- Blood feud and state control -- The development of places of refuge in the Bible -- Pollution and homicide -- Typologies of homicide -- Lex Talionis -- International law: the homicide of a foreign citizen -- Conclusion -- Appendix: cuneiform sources on homicide.
Item type: Book
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MARY IMMACULATE LIBRARY Open Shelf KB4050 .B37 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 67121

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-237) and index.

Introduction -- A first case: the story of Cain and Abel -- Blood feud and state control -- The development of places of refuge in the Bible -- Pollution and homicide -- Typologies of homicide -- Lex Talionis -- International law: the homicide of a foreign citizen -- Conclusion -- Appendix: cuneiform sources on homicide.

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