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The Nine Commandments: Uncovering the Hidden Pattern of Crime and Punishment in the Hebrew Bible. By David Noel Freedman, Jeffrey C. Geoghegan and Michael M. Homan. Edited by Astrid B. Beck. New York: Doubleday2000. Pp. xvii, 368. $24.95. ISBN: 0-385-49986-8. Paper: $16.95. ISBN: 0-385-49987-6.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Earl Schwartz
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 17 , 2002 , pp. 435 - 438
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2002

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References

1. The Anchor Bible (Albright, William Foxwell & Freedman, David Noel eds., Doubleday 1981)Google Scholar.

2. Freedman, David Noel, The Unity of the Hebrew Bible (U. of Mich. Press 1991)Google Scholar.

3. Strauss, Leo, Persecution and the Art of Writing (U. of Chi. Press 1988)Google Scholar.

4. Buber and Rosenzweig link Genesis 1:2:4 to the directions given for the construction of desert sanctuary in the closing chapters of Exodus. Moses' ‘avenging’ attack on the Egyptian taskmaster appears to presage legislation concerning assault of a slave in Exodus 22:22. The peculiar starting point of the Covenantal Code (Exod 21-23)—laws dealing with the limits and termination of servitude—would seem to be a reflex of the exodus narrative.

5. Levinson, Sanford, Constitutional Faith (Princeton U. Press 1988)Google Scholar.