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Wisdom-Laws

By Jackson, Bernard S.

Wisdom-Laws

By Jackson, Bernard S.

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We think of law as rules whose words are binding, used by the courts in the adjudication of disputes. Bernard S. Jackson explains that early biblical law was significantly different, and that many of the laws in the Covenant Code in Exodus should be viewed as "wisdom-laws." By this term, he means "self-executing" rules, the provisions of which permit their application without recourse to the law-courts or similar institutions. They thus conform to two tenets of the "wisdom tradition": that judicial dispute should be avoided, and that the law is a type of teaching, or "wisdom."
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
572
Release Date:
2006-05-04
Publication Date:
2006-03-02
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198269315
ISBN13:
9780198269311
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1016 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
35 cm
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