Prof. Bruce Wells is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and an M.A. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is the author of The Law of Testimony in the Pentateuchal Codes (Harrassowitz, 2004), co-author (with Raymond Westbrook) of Everyday Law in Biblical Israel: An Introduction (Westminster, 2009), and co-author (with F. Rachel Magdalene and Cornelia Wunsch) of Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts (Eisenbrauns, 2019). He is the co-editor (with F. Rachel Magdalene) of From the Tigris to the Tiber: The Writings of Raymond Westbrook (Eisenbrauns 2009), co-editor (with Hilary Lipka) of Sexuality and Law in the Torah (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2020), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
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Hate in ancient Near Eastern law, the Torah, and Elephantine ketubot is a legal term. If a man demotes his wife to second in rank for no fault, merely because he “hates” her, he cannot also take away her firstborn son’s right to inherit a double portion.
Hate in ancient Near Eastern law, the Torah, and Elephantine ketubot is a legal term. If a man demotes his wife to second in rank for no fault, merely because he “hates” her, he cannot also take away her firstborn son’s right to inherit a double portion.