Leading evangelical scholar John Walton surveys the cultural context of the ancient Near East, bringing insight to the interpretation of specific Old Testament passages. This new edition of a top-selling textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised throughout to reflect the refined thinking of a mature scholar. It includes over 30 illustrations. Students and pastors who want to deepen their understanding of the Old Testament will find this a helpful and instructive study.

Der Autor bespricht in seiner Studie alle bekannten literarischen Quellen zu Moab aus dem 1. Jahrtausend v.Chr. Die Texte aus Moab selbst werden eingehend untersucht. Ausserdem werden die Notizen aus agyptischen und neuassyrischen Quellen sowie das Alte Testament ausgewertet. Uber den Umweg der Sihon-Tradition haben die biblischen Autoren Moab aus dem nordlichen in den sudlichen Landesteil verlagert. Das eigentliche Kernland Moabs war aber zu allen Zeiten nordlich des Arnon. Schliesslich werden die archaologischen Daten fur eine Rekonstruktion der Geschichte Moabs im 1. Jahrtausend v.Chr. herangezogen.Der Durchgang durch die Quellen zeigt, dass ab dem 9. Jahrhundert v. Chr. im nordlichen Moab nationalstaatliche Tendenzen auszumachen sind. Die verschiedenen Ethnien im Gebiet von Moab wurden in der Folgezeit geeint. Archaologisch zeigt sich, dass die Besiedlung des sudlichen Moabs vermutlich von einer starken Zentralmacht im Norden organisiert wurde. Erst nach dem Verlust der Nationalstaatlichkeit erodiert auch das Zusammengehorigkeitsgefuhl der Bewohner. Eine staatlich verfasste Gesellschaft hat es ab der persischen Zeit in Moab fur lange Zeit nicht mehr gegeben.

This volume examines how gender relations were regulated in ancient Near Eastern and biblical law. The textual corpus examined includes the various pertinent law collections, royal decrees and instructions from Mesopotamia and Hatti, and the three biblical legal collections. Peled explores issues beginning with the wide societal perspective of gender equality and inequality, continues to the institutional perspective of economy, palace and temple, the family, and lastly, sex crimes. All the texts mentioned or referred to in the book are given in an appendix, both in the original languages and in English translation, allowing scholars to access the primary sources for themselves. Law and Gender in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible offers an invaluable resource for anyone working on Near Eastern society and culture, and gender in the ancient world more broadly.

The first comprehensive survey of the world's oldest known legal systems, this collaborative work of twenty-two scholars covers over 3,000 years of legal history of the Ancient Near East. Each of the book's chapters represents a review of the law of a particular period and region, e.g. the Egyptian Old Kingdom, by a specialist in that area. Within each chapter, the material is organized under standardized legal categories (e.g. constitutional law, family law) that make for easy cross-referencing. The chapters are arranged chronologically by millennium and within each millennium by the three major politico-cultural spheres of the region: Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia and the Levant. An introduction by the editor discusses the general character of Ancient Near Eastern Law.

The definitive source for how to write and publish in the field of biblical studies The long-awaited second edition of the essential style manual for writing and publishing in biblical studies and related fields includes key style changes, updated and expanded abbreviation and spelling-sample lists, a list of archaeological site names, material on qur’anic sources, detailed information on citing electronic sources, and expanded guidelines for the transliteration and transcription of seventeen ancient languages. Features: Expanded lists of abbreviations for use in ancient Near Eastern, biblical, and early Christian studies Information for transliterating seventeen ancient languages Exhaustive examples for citing print and electronic sources

This striking new contribution to gender studies demonstrates the essential role of Israelite and Near East law in the historical analysis of gender. The theme of these studies of Babylonian, Hittite, Assyrian, and Israelite law is this: What is the significance of gender in the formulation of ancient law and custom? Feminist scholarship is enriched by these studies in family history and the status of women in antiquity. At the same time, conventional legal history is repositioned, as new and classical texts are interpreted from the vantage point of feminist theory and social history. Papers from SBL Biblical Law Section form the core of this collection.