Blood Revenge and Burial Rites in Ancient Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3965876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Moses Buttenwieser (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1919 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Pages | 303 |
| Publication date | 1919-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/592751 |
| OpenAlex | W2319415345 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
GOETHE, in speaking of laws and legal rights, says that they are transmitted from age to age like an eternal disease. I have often wondered if Goethe, were he living today, would not extend his remark to some of our most firmly rooted Biblical theories, which for over half a century have found their way from one Biblical commentary or textbook into another, withoAt their validity ever being questioned. One of these theories pertains to the condition under which a murder is supposed to have been subject to blood-revenge. Biblical scholars have been wont to hold that in ancient Israel bloodshed called for vengeance only when the murdered person was left unburied, or, in Biblical phraseology, when his blood was left uncovered, unabsorbed by the earth. Conspicuous in the confusion caused by this erroneous view is the prevailing interpretation of Job 16. 18
Ancient history · Archaeology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1992 - 1992 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |