Wesen und Herkunft des Apodiktischen Rechts

In this brilliant work, Gerstenberger examines the Israelite legal tradition. He argues against the thesis that the so-called "e;apodicitic"e; laws in the Old Testament were distinctively Israelite, a single form, or originating in the liturgy and covenant-making. Using the story of Jonadab and the Rechabites in Jeremiah 35 and the incest prohibitions in Leviticus 18, the author argues that the se...