Bruce Wells
Biographic Data
| ID | 3830754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Wells |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Wells |
| SIGNATURE | WELLS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible
This Companion offers a comprehensive overview of the history, nature, and legacy of biblical law. Examining the debates that swirl around the nature of biblical law, it explores its historical context, the significance of its rules, and its influence on early Judaism and Christianity. The volume also interrogates key questions: Were the rules intended to function as ancient Israel's statutory law? Is there evidence to indicate that they served a…
Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible
Oaths and Curses: A Study in Neo- and Late Babylonian Legal Formulary. By Malgorzata Sandowicz
Oaths and Curses: A Study in Neo- and Late Babylonian Legal Formulary. By Malgorzata Sandowicz. Alter Orient und Altes Testament, vol. 398. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2012. Pp. xiii + 542. 41 plts. €92
Ordeals, ancient Near East
The principal ancient Near Eastern ordeal was the river ordeal, which was utilized by judicial authorities for nearly two thousand years, beginning in the mid‐third millennium bce . Those deemed guilty by the ordeal were usually pulled from the water and punished according to their crime, even if that meant execution. Only minimal evidence exists for other types of ordeals.
The Interpretation of Legal Traditions in Ancient Israel
This article argues that each of the three discrete law collections in the Pentateuch (the Covenant Code, the Holiness Code, and the Deuteronomic Code) possesses a distinctive approach to interpreting legal traditions. The article focuses on the interpretation of longstanding traditions that circulated in the broader ancient Near East. It looks at how the pentateuchal collections respond to expressions of these traditions in other biblical and cu…
Sex Crimes in the Laws of the Hebrew Bible
Although biblical texts identify a range of sexual behavior as illicit, adultery is the only sexual act addressed in the law collections of the Hebrew Bible as a crime – i.e., as a serious harm against another person for which punishments beyond financial compensation are allowed. Some scholars have argued that the treatment of adultery in biblical law is better and more favorable toward women than that found in the cuneiform law collections; oth…
Judges, early Israelite
The texts of the Hebrew Bible are the primary sources of our knowledge for judges in ancient Israel prior to the Hellenistic period.
Law, ancient Near East
Ancient Near Eastern law was both written and unwritten.
Ordeals, ancient Near East
The only ancient Near Eastern ordeal for which there is clear evidence is the river ordeal, despite the claim that some texts describe a drinking ordeal (Frymer‐Kensky 1981).
The Grammar of the Neo-Babylonian Assertory Oath
Law from the Tigris to the Tiber: The Writings of Raymond Westbrook
Law from the Tigris to the Tiber: The Writings of Raymond Westbrook
"Raymond Westbrook (1946-2009) was acknowledged by many as the world{u2019}s foremost expert on the legal systems of the ancient Near East and a leading scholar in the study of biblical and classical law. This collection brings together the 44 most important articles that Westbrook published in the 25 years following the completion of his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1982. The first volume, The Shared Tradition, contains 16 articles that lay out W…
Pre-trial negotiations: The Case of the run-away slave in Dar . 53
The study of ancient Near Eastern trial procedure has a long history, and the judicial systems of several periods have been investigated in detail. What remains lacking is a thorough and systematic treatment of the trial law and procedure from the Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods, though numerous legal texts have been studied. Recently two dissertations by F. R. Magdalene and S. E. Holtz have described the adjudicative process from the bringing…
Gottes Recht als Menschenrecht: Rechts- und literaturhistorische Studien zum Deuteronomium
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Gottes Recht als Menschenrecht: Rechts- und literaturhistorische Studien zum Deuteronomium
Pre-trial negotiations: The Case of the run-away slave in Dar . 53
The study of ancient Near Eastern trial procedure has a long history, and the judicial systems of several periods have been investigated in detail. What remains lacking is a thorough and systematic treatment of the trial law and procedure from the Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods, though numerous legal texts have been studied. Recently two dissertations by F. R. Magdalene and S. E. Holtz have described the adjudicative process from the bringing…
Law from the Tigris to the Tiber: The Writings of Raymond Westbrook
Law from the Tigris to the Tiber: The Writings of Raymond Westbrook
"Raymond Westbrook (1946-2009) was acknowledged by many as the world{u2019}s foremost expert on the legal systems of the ancient Near East and a leading scholar in the study of biblical and classical law. This collection brings together the 44 most important articles that Westbrook published in the 25 years following the completion of his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1982. The first volume, The Shared Tradition, contains 16 articles that lay out W…
Judges, early Israelite
The texts of the Hebrew Bible are the primary sources of our knowledge for judges in ancient Israel prior to the Hellenistic period.
Law, ancient Near East
Ancient Near Eastern law was both written and unwritten.
Ordeals, ancient Near East
The only ancient Near Eastern ordeal for which there is clear evidence is the river ordeal, despite the claim that some texts describe a drinking ordeal (Frymer‐Kensky 1981).
The Grammar of the Neo-Babylonian Assertory Oath
The Interpretation of Legal Traditions in Ancient Israel
This article argues that each of the three discrete law collections in the Pentateuch (the Covenant Code, the Holiness Code, and the Deuteronomic Code) possesses a distinctive approach to interpreting legal traditions. The article focuses on the interpretation of longstanding traditions that circulated in the broader ancient Near East. It looks at how the pentateuchal collections respond to expressions of these traditions in other biblical and cu…
Sex Crimes in the Laws of the Hebrew Bible
Although biblical texts identify a range of sexual behavior as illicit, adultery is the only sexual act addressed in the law collections of the Hebrew Bible as a crime – i.e., as a serious harm against another person for which punishments beyond financial compensation are allowed. Some scholars have argued that the treatment of adultery in biblical law is better and more favorable toward women than that found in the cuneiform law collections; oth…
Ordeals, ancient Near East
The principal ancient Near Eastern ordeal was the river ordeal, which was utilized by judicial authorities for nearly two thousand years, beginning in the mid‐third millennium bce . Those deemed guilty by the ordeal were usually pulled from the water and punished according to their crime, even if that meant execution. Only minimal evidence exists for other types of ordeals.
Oaths and Curses: A Study in Neo- and Late Babylonian Legal Formulary. By Malgorzata Sandowicz
Oaths and Curses: A Study in Neo- and Late Babylonian Legal Formulary. By Malgorzata Sandowicz. Alter Orient und Altes Testament, vol. 398. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2012. Pp. xiii + 542. 41 plts. €92
The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible
This Companion offers a comprehensive overview of the history, nature, and legacy of biblical law. Examining the debates that swirl around the nature of biblical law, it explores its historical context, the significance of its rules, and its influence on early Judaism and Christianity. The volume also interrogates key questions: Were the rules intended to function as ancient Israel's statutory law? Is there evidence to indicate that they served a…
Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible
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