The "effected object" in contractual legal language: The semantics of "if you purchase a Hebrew slave" (Exod. XXI 2)

Vetus Testamentum

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 485-504

  Levinson, Bernard M ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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EID: 79954081533     PISSN: 00424935     EISSN: 15685330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853306778941737     Document Type: Article

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4. This work draws upon earlier studies; most relevant here is idem, "The Law of the Hebrew Slave", ZAW 108(1996), pp. 534-46.
5. Van Seters, Law Book for the Diaspora, pp. 22-23, 86-87.
6. see idem, "Deuteronomium und Pentateuch: Aspekte der gegenwärtigen Debatte", ZABR 6(2000), pp. 221-84.
7. See D. P. Wright, Review of A Law Book for the Diaspora: Revision in the Study of the Covenant Code, by J. Van Seters, JAOS 124(2004), pp. 129-31;
8. idem, "The Laws of Hammurabi as a Source for the Covenant Collection (Exodus 20:23-23:19) ", MAARAV 10(2003), pp. 11-87;
9. B. M. Levinson, "Is the Covenant Code an Exilic Composition? A Response to John Van Seters", in In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (ed. J. Day; London, 2004), pp. 272-325;
10. See D. Crystal, A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (3d ed.; Oxford, 1991), p. 253.
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17. and B. M. Levinson, Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation (Oxford and New York, 1997), p. 126.
18. B. S. Jackson, Wisdom-Laws: A Study of the Mishpatim of Exodus 21:1-22:16 (Oxford, 2006), ch. 1, section 3.
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20. For the translation of v. 10 and discussion of the law concerning non-priests eating sancta, see J. Milgrom, Leviticus 17-22: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (AB 3A; New York, 2000), pp. 1844, 1860-1863.
21. M. Sokoloff, A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period (Ramat Gan, 1990), p. 497.
22. R. Alter, The Five Book of Moses: A Translation with Commentary [New York, 2004], p. 275.
23. A. Tal, The Samaritan Pentateuch: Edited According to Ms 6 (C) of the Shekhem Synagogue (Tel Aviv, 1994), p. 49.