He law of the Hebrew slave

Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 534-546

  Van Seters, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 64949193819     PISSN: 00442526     EISSN: 16130103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/zatw.1996.108.4.534     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. E. Otto, Wandel der Rechtsbegründungen in der Gesellschaftsgeschichte des antiken Israel. Eine Rechtsgeschichte des »Bundesbuches« Ex XX 22-XXIII 13, Studia Biblica 3, 1988
2. idem, Die Tora: Theologie und Sozialgeschichte des alttestamentlichen Gesetzes, 1992, 132-234
3. See J. van Seters, The Life of Moses, 1994
4. See also W. W. Hallo, Slave Release in the Biblical World in Light of a New Text, in: Solving Riddles and Untying Knots: Biblical, Epigraphic, and Semitic Studies in Honor of Jonas C. Greenfield, ed. Z. Zevit et al., 1995, 79-94. Hallo discusses Old Babylonian edicts for release of debt-slaves, emphasizing the limited and periodic nature of the releases which seem to mitigate and qualify the unrealistic terms of the Hammurapi »reform«
5. On the use of slave-marks in the Near East see V. Hurowitz, 〉His Master Shall Pierce His Ear with an Awl〈 (Exodus 21.6): Making Slaves in the Bible in the Light of Akkadian Sources, AAJR 58 (1992), 47-77
6. For the general Near Eastern background to such proclamations of manumission see M. Weinfeld, Social Justice in Ancient Israel and in the Ancient Near East, 1995, 152-168
7. See R. Kilian, Literarkritische und formgeschichtliche Untersuchung des Heiligkeitsgesetzes, BBB 19, 1963, 121-148
8. A. Cholewski, Heiligkeitsgesetz und Deuteronomium: Eine vergleichende Studie, AnBib 66 (1976), 232-240
9. See also R. H. Pfeiffer, Introduction to the Old Testament, 1941, 240
10. O. Eissfeldt, The Old Testament: An Introduction, 1965, 235
11. See Chirichigno, Debt-Slavery in Israel, 200-218
12. Cited from Kwasman, Neo-Assyrian Legal Documents in the Kouyunijk Collection of the British Museum, No. 214, p. 254
13. See the earlier publication in: J. Köhler and A. Ungnad, Assyrische Rechtsurkunden, 1913, no. 37, 33 ff.; and my earlier treatment in Abraham in History and Tradition, 83
14. See recently, M. Weinfeld, Social Justice in Ancient Israel and in the Ancient Near East, 168-174
15. N. P. Lemche, The Hebrew and the Seven Year Cycle, BN 25 (1984), 65-75, esp. 70 f
16. See my discussion of Ex 23,10-12 in Cultic Laws in the Covenant Code and their Relationship to Deuteronomy and the Holiness Code, forthcoming