The requirement of a “life for a life,” recalling the lex talionis, is provided when a man accidentally kills a pregnant woman in a brawl. While this consequence is generally explained as capital punishment or monetary repayment, its legal formulation in the Covenant Collection is suggestive of live, human, substitution.
Dr.
Sandra Jacobs
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The author of the Covenant Collection in Exodus knew the Laws of Hammurabi and revised them to fit with Israelite legal and ethical conceptions. This is clear when we compare their laws of assault in each.
Prof.
David P. Wright
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Many scholars, traditional and academic, believe it was worship of another god, the first commandment in the Decalogue, but what Aaron actually claims about the calf points to a different collection of laws.
Prof.
Joel Baden
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A classic example of source criticism applied to Torah legislation.
Dr. Rabbi
Zev Farber
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A Comparative Analysis
Dr.
Eve Levavi Feinstein
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. . . and the Challenges of Putting it into Practice.
Prof.
Marvin A. Sweeney
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