Law and Narrative in the Bible and in Neighbouring Ancient Cultures

Author: Klaus-Peter Adam   Friedrich Avemarie   Dorit Felsch   Nili Wazana  

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck‎

Publication year: 2012

E-ISBN: 9783161521232

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783161508431

Subject: B9 Religion

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Language: ENG

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Law and Narrative in the Bible and in Neighbouring Ancient Cultures

Description

Law is not only conveyed in codified clauses; it is often featured as a pivotal topic in literary texts. Existing legal relationships can determine the historical or the fictive setting of a drama or a plot, narratives can propagate laws or demonstrate their inherent problems. Literature can be used as an integral part of a strategy to implement legally justified demands, it can aim at correcting or even at denouncing legal rules. The authors of this volume examine literary and functional texts from the bible, the Ancient Near East, early Judaism and classical antiquity. They choose from the fields of constitutional law, litigation, family law, property and inheritance law, damages, punishment, privilege and maintenance.

Chapter

CORNELIA WUNSCH: Legal Narrative in the Neo-Babylonian Trial Documents: Text Reconstruction, Interpretation, and Assyriological Method

General Problems in the Legal Narratives Recorded on Clay Tablets

Restoring the Text

Reconstructing the Story in and behind the Text

The Reconstruction of Legal Narrative: Examples

A Lawsuit about Inheritance Shares

Deposition from the Eanna Temple Archive

Summary

Bibliography

Abbreviations for Text Editions and Dictionaries

WOLFGANG OSWALD: Die Exodus-Gottesberg-Erzählung als Gründungsurkunde der judäischen Bürgergemeinde

1. Die Suche nach einer vordeuteronomistischen Erzählung im Buch Exodus

2. Der narrative Rahmen der Gesetzgebung

3. Die Literargeschichte des sog. Bundesbuches

4. Die Gattung des so genannten Bundesbuches

5. Das Volk als Souverän

6. Zusammenfassung

Bibliographie

UDO RÜTERSWÖRDEN: Gesetz und Erzählung anhand der Josephsgeschichte

Bibliographie

NILI WAZANA: “For an Impaled Body is a Curse of God” (Deut 21:23): Impaled Bodies in Biblical Law and Conquest Narratives

1. Introduction

2. The Narrative: impaled bodies in the story of the conquest

3. Deuteronomy 21:22 ̶ 23

4. The connections between Narrative and Law

5. Denial of Burial in Assyrian Practice and Propaganda

6. Reaction to Assyrian Warfare and Propaganda

7. Conclusion

Bibliography

KLAUS-PETER ADAM: A Didactic Case Narrative on Homicide Law: 1 Samuel 26

I. Teaching law through case narratives

II. Homicide and revenge in a synchronic perspective in 1Sam 18–27

III. The form and the outline of 1Sam 26

IV. The Structure of the dialogue

V. Homicide

VI. Outlook

Bibliography

RACHEL MAGDALENE: The Reader as Judge in the Book of Job: Interpretation and the Narrativity of Case Law

1. The Implied Reader’s Knowledge

2. The Satan’s Trial of Job and Yahweh

3. Conclusions and Implications

Bibliography

JOACHIM HENGSTL: Rechtliche Anliegen in biblischen Schilderungen. Methodische Gesichtspunkte

1. Einleitung

2. Zum Verhältnis von Recht und Literatur

3. Zur Quellenlage

4. Zur Aussagequalität literarischer Quellen

5. Bibel, Literatur und Recht

Bibliographie

II. Greece and Rome

SUSANNE GÖDDE: Recht ohne Gesetz? Szenarien der Rechtssprechung bei Homer, Hesiod und Aischylos

1. Vorbemerkungen

2. Zweierlei Recht in Homers Ilias oder: Ist Zeus ein gerechter Herrscher?

3. Hesiod: „Poetry of Justice“

4. Die Orestie oder: eine ‚kurze‘ Geschichte der Demokratie

Bibliographie

STEFAN KRAUTER: Rechtsnorm und Beispielerzählung im Dienste der Überzeugung. M. Tullius Cicero, De domo sua ad pontifices

1. Ciceros De domo sua ad pontifices – Argumentationsgang und Redegattung

1.1 Überblick über den Argumentationsgang

1.2 Zur Gattung der Rede

2. Die Rolle juristischer Argumentation

3. Die Rolle narrativer Passagen

4. Untersuchung ausgewählter Textpassagen

4.1 Cic. dom. 18–26: Pompeius als Präzedenzfall für sich selbst

4.2 Cic. dom. 34–38: Eine Adoption wider Recht und Sitte

4.3 Cic. dom. 50–53: Ein absurdes Sammelgesetz

4.4 Cic. dom. 123–126: Weihung als politischer Racheakt

4.5 Cic. dom. 127–137: Ein Gesetz wird passend erzählt

5. Schluss

Bibliographie

III. Judaism in the Hellenistic-Roman Age

BEATE EGO: „Diejenigen, welche die Wahrheit tun, werden Gelingen haben in ihren Werken“ (Tob 4,6). „Law“ und „narrative“ im Buch Tobit

1. Einleitung

2. „Close reading“

3. Auswertung und Ausblick

Bibliographie

CANA WERMAN: Narrative in the Service of Halakha: Abraham, Prince Mastema, and the Paschal Offering in Jubilees

The Aqedah in Jubilees

The Laws of the Paschal Offering in Priestly Halakha

The Festival of Matzot and Pilgrimage in Jubilees

Bibliography

LUTZ DOERING: Reinheit und Tempel. Ein Beitrag zum Verhältnis von Law und Narrative im Jubiläenbuch

I. „Rituelle“ Unreinheit, Reinheit und Reinigung im Jubiläenbuch

II. Die Verbindung mit dem Heiligtum

III. Die Betonung von „moralischer“ Reinheit

IV. Ergebnis

Bibliographie

TAL ILAN: Babatha the Killer-Wife: Literature, Folk Religion and Documentary Papyri

1. Babatha as a Killer-Wife

2. Evidence for the Killer-Wife Myth in Ancient Jewish Society

3. Other Killer-Wives

4. The “Killer-Husband”?

Conclusion

Bibliography

CATHERINE HEZSER: Orality, Textuality, and Memory in the Transmission of Rabbinic Legal Narratives

1. The Legal Situation and Its Written Expression in Rabbinic Documents

2. Assmann and Halbwachs on Cultural Memory

3. Rabbinic Legal Statements and Narratives between Communicative and Cultural Memory

4. The Coexistence of Written and Unwritten Law

Bibliography

IV. New Testament: Luke-Acts

LUKAS BORMANN: Das Lukasevangelium als tragische Geschichtserzählung vom Zusammenbruch der Rechtsgemeinschaft des Judentums in Galiläa und Judäa

1. Geschichtsschreibung, Recht und Politik

2. Grundlagen antiker Gesellschaften

3. Die lukanische Vorgeschichte (Lk 1–2)

4. Die Lehre des Täufers (Lk 3,10–14.18–20) und deren Verwerfung (Lk 7,29f.)

5. Verkündigung Jesu: Die Seligpreisungen (Lk 6,20b–23) und Weheworte (Lk 6,24–26)

6. Die Jerusalemworte (Lk 19,41–44; 21,20–24 und 23,27–31; vgl. 13,34f.)

7. Schluss

Bibliographie

DOUGLAS A. HUME: “Sharing All Things in Common”: Narrative, Alienation, and the Friendship Ethos in Acts 2:41–47 and 4:32–35

Introduction

Friendship in Greco-Roman Literature

Narrative analysis of Acts 2:41–47

Narrative Analysis of Acts 4:32–35

Conclusions

Bibliography

EYAL REGEV: The Gradual Conversion of Gentiles in Acts and Luke’s Paradox of the Gentile Mission

1. The Scholarly Debate about the Gentile Mission in Acts

2. Samaritans

3. The Ethiopian Eunuch

4. Cornelius

5. Antioch

6. Sergius Paulus, the Proconsul in Salamis

7. God-Fearers in Asia Minor and Greece

8. Pagan Gentiles in Lystra, Athens and Philippi

9. The Gradual Development of the Gentile Mission

10. The Apostolic Decree

11. Between Message and History

12. Samaritans and Gentile Sympathizers in Luke’s Gospel

13. Luke’s Attitude towards the Gentiles

14. Luke’s Vision of the Mission to the Gentiles

15. The Limitations of the Gentile Mission: A Concealed Paradox

16. God-Fearers in the Pauline Communities?

Bibliography

FRIEDRICH AVEMARIE: The Apostolic Decree and the Jewishness of Luke’s Paul: On the Narrative Function of Acts 15:23–29

1. The non-impact of the Apostolic Decree on the Lukan picture of the Gentile mission

2. Instructions for conduct and corresponding behaviour in Luke-Acts

3. No echo of any of the four stipulations in Acts 16–20

4. Paul and the Law

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

The Authors of this Volume

Index of Sources

1. Sources from the Ancient Near East

2. Hebrew Bible

3. Classical Authors

4. Jewish Writings of the Greco-Roman Era

5. Documents and Inscriptions from the Land of Israel and Adjacent Regions

6. Rabbinic Literature

7. New Testament

8. Early Christian Literature

Index of Names and Subjects

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