THE NARRATIVE QUANDARY: CASES of LAW in LITERATURE

Vetus Testamentum

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-16

  Barmash, Pamela ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84969950353     PISSN: 00424935     EISSN: 15685330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853304772932906     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. J. Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Israel (preface by W. Robertson Smith; foreword by D.A. Knight; Atlanta, GA, 1994 [1885]), p. 33;
2. R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel (New York, 1961), pp. 1.10-12, 21-22, 33-40, 51-55, 80-90, 150-158;
3. H. McKeating, "The development of the law of homicide in Ancient Israel," VT 25 (1975), pp. 46-68;
4. W.F. Albright, "The Judicial Reform of Jehoshaphat," in Alexander Marx Jubilee Volume (New York, 1950), pp. 61-82;
5. D. Friedman, To Kill and Inherit (Hebrew) (Tel Aviv, 2000). On the Iliad
6. see M. Gagarin, Drakon and Early Athenian Homicide Law (New Haven, 1981), pp. 5-16;
7. M. Gagarin, Early Greek Law (Berkeley, 1986), pp. 26-34;
8. D.M. MacDowell, The Law in Classical Athens (Ithaca, 1978), pp. 17- 21;
9. R. Westbrook, "The Trial Scene in the Iliad," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 94 (1992), pp. 53-76.
10. Th. Ziolkowski, The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises (Princeton, 1997), pp. 30-41.
11. Nili Shupak, "A New Source for the Study of the Judiciary and Law of Ancient Egypt: 'The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant,'" JNES 51 (1992), pp. 1-18;
12. R. VerSteeg, "Law in Ancient Egyptian Fiction," Georgia Journal of International Law 24 (1994), pp. 37-97.
13. R. Posner, Law and Literature (Cambridge, 1988), pp. 75-131.
14. D. Daube, "Law in the Narratives," in Studies in Biblical Law (Cambridge, 1947), pp. 1-73.
15. W.I. Miller, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland (Chicago, 1990), p. 76.
16. B.L. Rockwood, in "On Doing Law and Literature," in B.L. Rockwood, ed., Law and Literature (Critic of Institutions 9; New York, 1996)
17. A. Julius, "Introduction," in M. Freeman and A.D.E. Lewis, eds., Law and Literature (Current Legal Issues 1999; Oxford, 1998), pp. xvi-xvii
18. I. Ward, Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives (Cambridge), p. ix.
19. H.A. Hoffner, Jr., The Laws of the Hittites: A Critical Edition (Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui 23; Leiden, 1997).
20. H. Hoffner, "On Homicide in Hittite Law," in Crossing Boundaries and Linking Horizons: Studies in Honor of Michael C. Astour on His 80th Birthday (ed. G.D. Young, M.W. Chavalas, and R.E. Averbeck; Bethesda, MD, 1997), p. 297.
21. D. Daube, "Direct and indirect causation in biblical law," VT 11 (1961), pp. 246-47.
22. S.M. Paul, Studies in the Book of the Covenant in the Light of Cuneiform and Biblical Law [SupVT 18; Leiden, 1970], pp. 63-64
23. I. Knohl, The Sanctuary of Silence [Minneapolis, 1995], p. 99.
24. A. Phillips, "The interpretation of 2 Samuel xii 5-6," VT 16 (1966), pp. 243-45;
25. P. Kyle McCarter, II Samuel (The Anchor Bible; Garden City, New York, 1984), p. 299;
26. H. Seebass, "Nathan und David in II Sam 12," ZAW 86 (1974), pp. 203-204;
27. D. Winton Thomas, "A consideration of some unusual ways of expressing the superlative in Hebrew," VT 3 (1953), pp. 219-20;
28. S. Rin, "The of grandeur," VT 9 (1959), pp. 324-25.
29. K. Whitelam, The Just King: Monarchical Judicial Authority in Ancient Israel [ JSOTSup 12; Sheffield, 1979], pp. 29-37, 197-206, 219-20.
30. G.N. Knoppers, Two Nations Under God: The Deuteronomic History of Solomon and the Dual Monarchies (Harvard Semitic Monographs 52-53; Atlanta, 1993-1994), pp. 1.83-7.
31. B. Levine, Numbers 21-36 (The Anchor Bible; New York, 2001), pp. 564-565
32. G.N. Knoppers, "Rethinking the Relationship between Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History: The Case of Kings," CBQ 63 (2001), pp. 414-15.
33. M. Walzer, "The Legal Codes of Ancient Israel," Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 4 (1992), p. 341.