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10 Ιαν 2024 · In this article, I will explore the origins, principles, and modern-day relevance of justice and fairness in biblical laws, highlighting their impact on contemporary debates and ethical decision-making.
The biblical concept of righteousness and law is based on the conviction that God is the righteous judge whose judges the earth with his impartiality and bestows his own righteousness to those who live in accordance with his will and commandments.
the enormous moral, religious, and legal influence of biblical law in general and of the mercy code in particular. In this way, the article reveals a backbone of our occidental culture.
This article draws upon Robert Alter’s insights into biblical narrative to challenge the strict dichotomies between “law” and “narrative” in the Hebrew Bible, demonstrating that both genres share many rhetorical techniques, and providing a template of narrative vision and legal praxis intertwined.
24 Απρ 2015 · If we ask what kind of assumptions the legal historian brings to ancient texts, the most ready answer would, no doubt, be assumptions regarding typical models of legal development. We can certainly identify the operation of assumptions of this kind in the modern literature relating to biblical law.
The study of biblical law is also a chance to study the law of a society with very different values and assumptions. This forces the reader to question the “naturalness” and the “normality” of what appears to be the social consensus in our own society.
13 Σεπ 2013 · Law and the Bible asks: What inspired light does the Bible shed on Christians? participation in contemporary legal systems? It concludes that more often than not the Bible overturns our...
