Wisdom-Laws: A Study of the Mishpatim of Exodus 21:1-22:16

Bernard S. Jackson

Wisdom-Laws: A Study of the Mishpatim of Exodus 21:1-22:16
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 April 2006
Pages
572
ISBN
9780198269311

Wisdom-Laws: A Study of the Mishpatim of Exodus 21:1-22:16

Bernard S. Jackson

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’.

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