The Deed and the Doer in the Bible

Informationen zum Autor Calum Carmichael is a professor of comparative literature and adjunct professor of law at Cornell University. He has degrees in science, historical theology, and law from the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Oxford. He is the author of fifteen books that focus primarily on biblical law; the editor of Studies in Comparative Legal History. a five-volume series devoted to the work of David Daube, who was his tutor at Oxford (University of California Press, 2001); and the author of a memoir, Ideas and the Man: Remembering David Daube (The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, 2004). Klappentext David Daube (1909-1999) was a world renowned biblical law scholar. He was a fellow at All Souls College at Oxford and emeritus professor of law at both Oxford and University of California, Berkeley. Throughout his life and continuing today, scholars have hailed his important research on Roman law, biblical law, Hebraic Law, and ethics. Now, for the first time, the first ten of his twenty Gifford Lectures, delivered in 1962 and 1964, are available to the public in The Deed and the Doer in the Bible. The overall theme of the lectures is law and wisdom in the Bible. Daube's wide-ranging deliberations reveal how complicated and profound the biblical text is. His lectures are aimed at professionals in the fields of biblical criticism, biblical history, ethics, and the history of law with respect to its roots in Old Testament traditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface / vii Abbreviations / xi 1. Causation / 3 2. Intent / 31 3. Error and Ignorance / 53 4. Passions / 92 5. Negligence / 115 6. Intellectual Authorship / 131 7. Attempt / 150 8. Collectives / 174 9. Women / 185 10. After the Deed / 209 11. Supplement to Women: The Language of Seduction in the Old Testament / 241 Notes / 261 Index of Sources / 293

Autorentext

Calum Carmichael is a professor of comparative literature and adjunct professor of law at Cornell University. He has degrees in science, historical theology, and law from the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Oxford. He is the author of fifteen books that focus primarily on biblical law; the editor of Studies in Comparative Legal History. a five-volume series devoted to the work of David Daube, who was his tutor at Oxford (University of California Press, 2001); and the author of a memoir, Ideas and the Man: Remembering David Daube (The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, 2004).

Klappentext

David Daube (1909-1999) was a world renowned biblical law scholar. He was a fellow at All Souls College at Oxford and emeritus professor of law at both Oxford and University of California, Berkeley. Throughout his life and continuing today, scholars have hailed his important research on Roman law, biblical law, Hebraic Law, and ethics. Now, for the first time, the first ten of his twenty Gifford Lectures, delivered in 1962 and 1964, are available to the public in The Deed and the Doer in the Bible. The overall theme of the lectures is law and wisdom in the Bible. Daube's wide-ranging deliberations reveal how complicated and profound the biblical text is. His lectures are aimed at professionals in the fields of biblical criticism, biblical history, ethics, and the history of law with respect to its roots in Old Testament traditions.

Inhalt

Preface / vii

Abbreviations / xi

1. Causation / 3

2. Intent / 31

3. Error and Ignorance / 53

4. Passions / 92

5. Negligence / 115

6. Intellectual Authorship / 131

7. Attempt / 150

8. Collectives / 174

9. Women / 185

10. After the Deed / 209

11. Supplement to Women: The Language of Seduction in the Old Testament / 241

    Notes / 261

    Index of Sources / 293