Inventing God's Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi
Inventing God's Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi
Oxford University Press, USA | 2009-09-03 | ISBN: 0195304756 | 608 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Most scholars believe that the numerous similarities between the Covenant Code (Exodus 20:23-23:19) and Mesopotamian law collections, especially the Laws of Hammurabi, which date to around 1750 BCE, are due to oral tradition that extended from the second to the first millennium. This book offers a fundamentally new understanding of the Covenant Code, arguing that it depends directly and primarily upon the Laws of Hammurabi and that the use of this source text occurred during the Neo-Assyrian period, sometime between 740-640 BCE, when Mesopotamia