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Dear Liz,
{LSF} Hasn't
Ray Westbrook discussed this? I
don't think apodictic laws are that rare but
maybe they are. If they are rare in the law codes and not rare in the Vassal
Treaties, that's interesting. (To me, anyway,
maybe everyone else knows this.)
[JDS] I haven't seen a single apodictic law in any of
the ANE law codes. In the treaties, the apodictic formulation is not in
laws but in treqaty stipulations: "With my friends you shall be
friends"
As for the ANE codes, they serve to
demonstrate the justness of the monarch (cf. the intro. and conclusion to CH).
\legal-administrative documents from the same places and periods demonstrate
that the actual legal practices were different.
[LSF] The same is here as well, only I suppose
the monarch is YHWH.
[JDS] Where does it say that YHWH is giving
thelaws/covenant because he is just?
[LSF] No murder isn't always punished by death,
cf Exodus 21:20. No punishment is listed. How do you translate naqom
yenaqem?
[JDS] He shall be avenged. Blood vengeance, meanng the
death penalty. In other words, a slave is worthy of blood vengeance just as is a
free man. That;s the punishment. Casuistic law always has a
sanction.
Jonathan
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