Oral Law of Ancient Israel
Robert D Miller II, OFS author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
Published:12th Oct '22
Should be back in stock very soon
This book presents a new window on the legal system of Ancient Israel. Building on the understanding that Israel was a society where writing was the medium for some forms of discourse but not others, where written texts were performed orally and rewritten from oral performances, Robert D. Miller II, OFS, examines law and jurisprudence in this oral-and-literate world. Using Iceland as an ethnographic analogy, Miller shows how law was practiced, performed, and transmitted; the way written artifacts of the law fit into oral performance and transmission; and the relationship of the detritus of law that survives in the Hebrew Bible, both Torah and Proverbs, to that earlier social world.
ISBN: 9781978715219
Dimensions: 237mm x 159mm x 18mm
Weight: 399g
148 pages