I'd like to call your attention to my article in Persia and Torah (SBL
2001)and all the references cited there which argue that these lists of
"laws" did not function then as our law codes function today. In other
words, they were not true laws, in our sense. Rather, they were lists
designed to illustrate a just society. There is no evidence that judges used
these lists to make judicial decisions.
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