Human rights in Deuteronomy : with special focus on slave laws / Daisy Yulin Tsai

Author:: Tsai, Daisy Yulin
Published:: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]
Copyright Date:: ©2014
Physical Description:: xiii, 244 pages ; 24 cm.

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Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; volume 464

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction and Methodological Considerations -- Review of Literature -- Problem Statement -- Research Methodology -- Projection of Research Significance -- 2.Exegesis of Deuteronomic Slave Laws -- The Arrangement of Deuteronomic Slave Laws -- Association of Elements Approach -- Decalogue Correspondence Approach -- The Limits and Problems of the Two Approaches -- Chiastic Framework Approach -- The Land and Agrarian Symbols in Deuteronomy with Reference to Its Slave Laws -- Indebted Hebrew Slave Law (Deut 15:12--18) -- The Structure of Deut 15:1--16:17 -- The Identification of Enslaved Members in the Indebted Family -- The Provision for the Manumitted Slave in Deut 15:13--14 -- The Motive Clauses in Deut 15:15, 18 and Their Relationship with Deut 15:16--17 -- The Motive Clause in 15:15 in View of the Deuteronomic Pattern Language -- The Relationship between the Motive Clauses in 15:15, 18 and the Exceptional Case in 15:16--17 -- The Meaning of and the Somatic Vocabulary in 15:18 -- Exegesis of Fugitive Slave Law (Deut 23:16--17) -- Inner-Comparative Study between Deut 15:12--18 and Deut 23:16--17 -- Summary and Conclusion -- 3.Comparative Studies of Biblical Slave Manumission Laws -- Deut 15:12--18 and Exod 21:2--11 -- Changes of Persons and Verbs from the Buyer's to the Seller's Point of View -- Response to Van Seters' Point of View -- The Second Person Addressed in the Legislative Texts -- The Polyvocality of Combined Discourses in the Legislative Texts -- Reading the Law in Its Context -- The Distinction of Verbs on Released Action -- The Differences Regarding Female Slaves Manumission -- Reading Exod 21:2--6 as a Gender-Inclusive Law -- Separating Exod 21:2--6 and 7--11 as Two Different Laws -- The Term in Exod 21:7 -- The Special Marital Sale and Redemption in Exod 21:7--11 -- The Term in Dt 15 and the Terms and in Ex 21 Denote Different Situations -- Reading the Law in Its Context -- Dissimilar Accounts and Ceremonies for a Permanent Slave -- The Value and the Interest That the Law Promotes and Protects -- Similar Ceremonies with Different Expressions -- Discerning the Similarities and Differences between Dt 15 and Ex 21 with the Legal Categorizational System -- Deut 15:12--18 and Lev 25:39--55 -- The Different Length of Term in Lev 25 -- The Types of Debt Slave in Lev 25 -- The Gender Inclusive Release in Lev 25 -- The Acquisition of Permanent Slaves in Lev 25 -- Problems Concerning the Claim of Supersession between the Laws -- Discerning the Similarities and Differences between Dt 15 and Lev 25 with the Legal Categorizational System -- Summary and Conclusion -- 4.Comparative Studies of ANE Slave Laws -- Terminology of Slave and the Slave Systems in the ANE -- The Terms for Slave in the ANE -- The Roles of the Household and Merchant in the Economic and Slave Systems -- The Acquisition of Slaves in the ANE -- Redemption and Termination of Enslavement -- Legal Status and Treatments of Slaves -- More Forms of Human Bondage -- Differences between Pawning for Debt and Debt Servitude -- The Grouping Methods of the ANE Laws -- Categories and Interpretations on ANE and Biblical Slave Laws -- Laws of Slave Escape -- Rewards of Returning a Runaway Slave (LU 17; LH 17; HL 22--24) and Punishments for Not Returning Runaway Slave (LL 12--13; LE 49--50; LH 16, 18, 19, 20) -- Prohibition against a Slave Crossing through the Main City-gate (LE 51, 52; LH 15) -- The Grouping and Arrangement of Slave Escape Laws -- Slave Purchase and Management -- Discipline of a Rebellious Slave (LU 25--26, HL173b) -- Unlawfully Taking Possession of a Slave (LE 40; LH 7) -- Protection of a Slave Purchaser's Right (LH 278--282; MAL C+G1) -- Violations against Another Person's Slave Property Rights and Punishments (LU 8, LE 31, Lev 19:20--22, LH 19, Exod 21:20--21, 26--27, LH 205, LH 226--227, LE 55, 57, LH 252, Exod 21:32, LH 231, LL f; LH 213--214) -- Raping Another Man's Female Slave (LU 8; LE 31) -- Sexual Intercourse with Another Man's Betrothed Slave Woman (Lev 19:20--22) -- Injuring Another Man's Slave (LH 199) -- Injuring One's Own Slave (Exod 21:20--21, 26--27) -- Injuring of a Free Man by a Slave (LH 205) -- Intentional and Unintentional Cutting off a Slave's Hairlock (LH 226--227) -- Incidental Death of a Slave Caused by an Animal Biting or Go-ring (LE 55, 57; LH 252; Exod 21:32) -- Incidental Death of a Slave Caused by a Builder's Negligence (LH 231) -- Incidental Miscarriage or Death of a Slave Woman Caused by Striking (LL f; LH 213--214) -- Marital Issues Related to a Slave (LU 4--5; HL 31--36,175; LH 146--147) -- Slave Marriages to Different Social Classes (LU 4--5; HL 31--36, HL 175) -- A Slave Woman Bearing Children in Place of Her Mistress (LH 146--147) -- Adoption Related to a Slave Woman (LE 33--35) -- Special Cases of Slave Release (LL 14, 25--26) -- The Grouping and Arrangement of Slave Purchase and Management Laws -- Debt Servitude and Other Forms of Human Bondage -- Human Distraint (LE 22--24; LH 114--116) -- Debt-servitude (LH 117) -- Human Pledge (LH 118--119; MAL A 39, 44, 48; C+G 2--3, 7) -- The Grouping and Arrangement of Debt-Servitude and Human Bondage Laws -- Discerning the Similarities and Differences between ANE and Biblical Slave Laws with the Legal Categorizational System -- A Survey of Slavery between the ANE and the Modern World -- Summary and Conclusion -- 5.The Laws and the Concepts of Human Rights in the ANE Law Books and in Deuteronomy -- The Differing Cosmologies of the Bible and the ANE -- Different Worldviews Presented between the Biblical and the ANE Law Books -- The Lawgivers' Spoken Words in the ANE -- The Lawgivers' Spoken Words in Deuteronomy -- The Different Position on Morality Shaping in Deuteronomy -- The Concept of Human Rights in Deuteronomy -- Summary and Conclusion -- 6.Conclusion: Summary, Contributions, and Further Avenues of Research -- The Import of This Study for Biblical Comparative Legal Studies.

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ISBN:

9783110363203 (alk. paper)
3110363208 (alk. paper)

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Trinity International University, 2011

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [214]-231) and indexes.

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