Studies in Biblical Law by David Daube
David Daube (1909–1999) was an eminent authority on Talmudic, Roman and ancient law, who taught legal history and jurisprudence at Cambridge, Aberdeen, Oxford and Berkeley. He was also in the vanguard of scholars who established the importance of Jewish and Talmudic perspectives to the understanding of the New Testament. This book, first published in 1947 and now reissued, contains five ground-breaking essays on the legal issues present in a number of Old Testament narratives including the story of Joseph and his brothers. Among the topics discussed are theft, deception, evidence, liability and punishment. These are set in the wider context of the growth of codes in the Pentateuch, Rabbinic interpretations of the Torah, and Roman sources including Macrobius and Gaius. Daube's book will resonate afresh in the scholarly climate of the twenty-first century, where the relationships between law and religion and between Judaism and Christianity are again the subject of lively debate.Calum Carmichael is professor of comparative literature and adjunct professor of law at Cornell University. He has degrees in science, historical theology, and law from the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Oxford. He is the author of fifteen books that focus primarily on biblical law; the editor of Studies in Comparative Legal Historya five-volume series devoted to the work of David Daube, who was his tutor at Oxford (University of California Press, 2001); and the author of a memoir, Ideas and the Man: Remembering David Daube (The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, 2004). He resides in Ithaca, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521089722 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521089727 |
| Title | Studies in Biblical Law |
| Author | David Daube |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2008-11-06 |
| Number of pages | 340 |
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