Laws in the Bible and in Early Rabbinic Collections

The remarkable discovery of ancient Near Eastern law collections or "e;codes,"e; beginning with the Laws of Hammurabi and followed by many other collections in decades following, opened a new window upon biblical law. This volume seeks to examine within a single study all of the biblical laws that are similar in content with ancient Near Eastern laws from Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Hatti. The ...