The Nature of the Collections

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3 - The Nature of the Collections

from Part II - The Biblical Legal Collections

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2024

Bruce Wells

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This chapter introduces the biblical law collections or codes: the Ten Commandments, the Covenant Collection, the Priestly Collection, the Holiness Collection, and the Deuteronomic Collection. It examines whether they come from a particular source, whether they should be considered mainly legal or literary works, and whether later collections sought to revise or reinterpret earlier ones.

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Covenant Code Holiness Code Deuteronomic Code cultural diffusion

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Information: The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible , pp. 55 - 75

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108636322.006 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2024

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