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Oral Law of Ancient Israel

Robert D. Miller II, OFS

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English
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
12 October 2022
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.
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Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 237mm,  Width: 159mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   399g
ISBN:   9781978715219
ISBN 10:   1978715218
Series:   Coniectanea Biblica
Pages:   148
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Chapter One: Approaches to Ancient Israel’s Legal World Chapter Two: Icelandic Oral-Written Law Interlude: Gothic Law as Control Resume: Oral-Written Customary Law Chapter Three: Oral-Written Customary Law in Ancient Israel Chapter Four: Oral Law and Proverbs

Robert D. Miller II, O.F.S., is Ordinary Professor of Old Testament at the Catholic University of America and a research affiliate with the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria.

Reviews for Oral Law of Ancient Israel

In this eye-opening work, Robert Miller applies his deep understanding of oral tradition and performance to the study of biblical law. Among the very important aspects of the subject that Miller illuminates are the nature of customary law, the dependence of biblical law on law elsewhere in the ancient Near East, and the interpenetration of law and proverbial wisdom. Lucidly written and well-referenced, this book should be required reading for students and scholars.--Edward L. Greenstein, Bar-Ilan University, emeritus Oral Law of Ancient Israel combines Miller's specializations (Israelite history, ethnographic analogy, and comparative anthropology) together with an energetic imagination in an investigation that few scholars could have done. The result is new light on the oral-and-written hybrid society of pre-exilic Israel in a plausible reconstruction that must now be taken into consideration by all who seek to understand the Israelite instructional material.--Bill T. Arnold, Asbury Theological Seminary


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