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To Kill and Take Possession. Law, Morality, and Society in Biblical Stories
Currents in Theology and Mission, Oct, 2004 by Ralph W. Klein
To Kill and Take Possession. Law, Morality, and Society in Biblical Stories. By Daniel Friedmann (Hendrickson, $29.95). F., a professor of comparative law in Israel, investigates the stories of the Old Testament in an attempt to find the moral concepts or laws underlying them. He also draws analogies between biblical stories and later historical events or legal cases.
In twenty-two chapters, the author explores familiar stories, from Adam and Eve to David and Bathsheba to Ruth and Boaz, and also looks at a number of issues: infertility, Levirate marriage, rape, and Ezra's expulsion of foreign women. David and Bathsheba's love child was illegitimate and had to die, but Solomon, like King Arthur, was conceived after his mother's first husband had died and was therefore legitimate. Lacking a human court, God had to investigate, prosecute, and judge Adam and Eve, and God had to conduct the trial of Cain since his parents could not be expected to avenge one son by punishing the other. After these trials, legal matters passed to human hands. The author explores the discrepancy between the morals displayed in the narratives and the standards advanced in biblical laws. Often the people of Israel lived by a system of law other than that reflected in the Pentateuch. If the biblical law was evolving, should the Bible's legal precepts be followed today simply because they are in the Bible? Fascinating case studies. RWK
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