Exodus 21:35 and the Composition and Date of the Covenant Code
There has been much scholarly discussion in recent years concerning the relationship between the biblical law collections and those from other parts of the ancient Near East. In this article, I examine a verb in Exod 21:35, ṿygp, that has not received a robust linguistic analysis as reflecting Akkad...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
[2018]
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Die Welt des Orients
Year: 2018, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, Pages: 9-23 |
IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament KBL Near East and North Africa TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
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Bible. Exodus 21,35
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Summary: | There has been much scholarly discussion in recent years concerning the relationship between the biblical law collections and those from other parts of the ancient Near East. In this article, I examine a verb in Exod 21:35, ṿygp, that has not received a robust linguistic analysis as reflecting Akkadian influence, though other scholars have noticed its similarities to parallel formulations in other Near Eastern legal collections. I provide a variety of considerations for understanding why this verb reveals Akkadian influence, a general time when such influence could have occurred, and the possible scribal mechanisms through which the verb ṿygp could have entered into the biblical laws of the goring ox. |
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ISSN: | 2196-9019 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Die Welt des Orients
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13109/wdor.2018.48.1.9 |