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Inventing God's law

how the covenant code of the Bible used and revised the laws of Hammurabi

by David P. Wright

SourcesBibleCriticism, interpretationCode of HammurabiAncient LawLawExtra-canonical parallelsBook of the Covenant

David Wright argues that the so-called Covenant Collection of the Torah (Exodus 20:23-23:19) is chiefly the work of a single author, is the result of intellectual interaction with the author's sources and it may have had a politically ideological purpose, somewhat similar to that of the Laws of Hammurabi.

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