Course Description
This course introduces graduate students to textual (Hebrew and Greek), historical, anthropological, and conceptual dimensions of law in and beyond the Old Testament. The focus is on understanding laws and their hermeneutical aspects in the ancient contexts where they were composed and transmitted. Students will grow in their knowledge of the nature of law, ancient scribal practices, and law’s philosophical and theological significance.
Bibliography
MILSTEIN, SARA J. Making a Case: The Practical Roots of Biblical Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
NAJAMAN, HINDY. Seconding Sinai: The Development of Mosaic Discourse in Second Temple Judaism. Leiden: Brill, 2003.
MORROW, WILLIAM S. An Introduction to Biblical Law. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017.
ROTH, MARTHA T. Law Collections From Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. Scholars Press, 1997.
WELLS, BRUCE, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.