TY - JOUR
T1 - Animals in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Law
T2 - Tort and Ethical Laws
AU - Breier, I.
N1 - In Press
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This article examines the attitude toward animals in the Pentateuch and ancient Near Eastern legal codes. Employing a comparative approach, it analyzes criminal and tort law in relation to animals and their carers—stealing and finding animals used in factory farms, the responsibility of watchmen and renters, and that of the legal “owners” of animals who cause damage. Demonstrating how animals form part of the biblical ethical system, in which ethical demands become binding statutes, it looks at why this process only occurred in the Hebrew Bible and not in other ancient Near Eastern cultures.
AB - This article examines the attitude toward animals in the Pentateuch and ancient Near Eastern legal codes. Employing a comparative approach, it analyzes criminal and tort law in relation to animals and their carers—stealing and finding animals used in factory farms, the responsibility of watchmen and renters, and that of the legal “owners” of animals who cause damage. Demonstrating how animals form part of the biblical ethical system, in which ethical demands become binding statutes, it looks at why this process only occurred in the Hebrew Bible and not in other ancient Near Eastern cultures.
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/9aa1c22d-a3ff-3945-806a-4685021f6c46/
U2 - 10.5406/janimalethics.8.2.0166
DO - 10.5406/janimalethics.8.2.0166
M3 - Article
SN - 2160-1267
VL - 8
SP - 166
EP - 181
JO - Journal of Animals Ethics
JF - Journal of Animals Ethics
IS - 2
ER -
