Social Justice and Deuteronomy

by Hamilton, Jeffries M.

• ISBN13: 9781555407476
• ISBN10: 1555407471
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-11-01
• Publisher: Scholars Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
The Rhetoric of Deuteronomy 15	p. 7
The Structure of the Chapter	p. 8
The Structure of the Semittah Law	p. 11
The Structure of the Manumission Law	p. 19
The Structure of the Release Laws and Effective Argumentation	p. 26
The Language of the Chapter	p. 31
Somatic Vocabulary	p. 31
Relational Vocabulary	p. 34
The Near Eastern Analogues	p. 45
The Nature of the Evidence	p. 48
The Misarum Edicts	p. 48
The Andurarum Acts	p. 53
The Law Codes	p. 56
The Nature of Debt and People in Need	p. 62
The Biblical Parallels	p. 73
The Covenant Code	p. 82
Excursus on the Term "Hebrew Slave"	p. 83
The Motive Clause	p. 85
The Holiness Code	p. 91
The Holiness Code and the Covenant Code	p. 93
The Tendency Toward Definition	p. 94
The Context of Deuteronomy 15	p. 99
The Place of Deuteronomy 15 in the Structure of Deuteronomic Law	p. 103
Excursus on the Views of the Sequence of Laws in Deuteronomy	p. 103
The Release-Laws and the Sabbath Commandment	p. 107
The Release-Laws and the Deuteronomic Code of Laws	p. 113
Specific Laws and the Release-Laws	p. 117
The Centrality of Deuteronomy 15	p. 135
Toward The Present	p. 139
Hermeneutical Considerations	p. 139
The Release-Laws for Today	p. 144
Social Justice/Human Rights as Obligation	p. 145
The Obligation of the Powerful	p. 149
Social Justice as Barometer of the Health of a Society	p. 153
The Church as Advocate for the Dependent	p. 155
Bibliography	p. 159
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