Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

This is my understanding as well. Therefore, a person who murders his slave is

not subject to a legal proceeding. If the slave has a family member to avenge his death,

then the family member can try to do so, I suppose. But how likely is it?

A slave then does not have the status a free person, which is no different from

Hammurabi's Code.

Liz

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In a message dated 1/27/02 12:38:55 AM Eastern Standard Time, lizfried AT umich.edu writes:

} I'm not sure about this.It seems if so, then it would say mut, yamut. I don't think a punishment,

I think Milgrom would say that 'mot yumat' applies to judicial execution by a court following a trial, whereas "naqom yenaqem" applies to blood vengeance by a family member.  
Milgrom maintains that "karet" means that G-d will cut off the guilty party's bloodline, and possibly also that he will be denied an afterlife.

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