Human Rights in Deuteronomy : : With Special Focus on Slave Laws / / Daisy Yulin Tsai.
The humanitarian concerns of the biblical slave laws and their rhetorical techniques rarely receive scholarly attention, especially the two slave laws in Deuteronomy. Previous studies that compared the biblical and the ANE laws focused primarily on their similarities and developed theories of direct...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction and Methodological Considerations
- 2. Exegesis of Deuteronomic Slave Laws
- 3. Comparative Studies of Biblical Slave Manumission Laws
- 4. Comparative Studies of ANE Slave Laws
- 5. The Laws and the Concepts of Human Rights in the ANE Law Books and in Deuteronomy
- 6. Conclusion: Summary, Contributions, and Further Avenues of Research
- Appendix A: A Compilation of Biblical and Cuneiform Law Collections
- Appendix B: Biblical and ANE Slave Laws and ANE Laws Related to Slave Issues
- Bibliography
- Index of Authors
- Index of Scripture References