"If the sun shone on him" (Exodus 22:2): a different approach

Edward L Greenstein

doi:10.2307/j.ctv1t4m1vt.10

"If the sun shone on him" (Exodus 22:2): a different approach

Edward L Greenstein

The Zalman Shamir Department of Hebrew Bible at Bar-Ilan University

Bar-Ilan University

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Laws concerning the theft of a farm animal presented between Exod 21:37 and 22:2b are interrupted in order to present the case of thief who is caught in the act of breaking in or afterwards (22:1–2a). Although this interruption has often been regarded as a secondary interpolation,¹ it may be no more than a digression on the subject of homicide in connection with an act of theft.² In making an argument for an interpretation of the law somewhat different from the usual one, I shall maintain that this digression manifests a pattern of legal thought that is established in...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ben Porat Yosef
Subtitle of host publication	Studies in the Bible and Its World, Essays in Honor of Joseph Fleishman
Editors	Michael Avioz, Omer Minka, Yael Shemesh
Place of Publication	Münster
Pages	35-41
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1t4m1vt.10
State	Published - 2019

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Name	Alter Orient und Altes Testament
Volume	458

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Bible -- Exodus -- XXII, 2 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Jewish law -- Biblical teaching

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"If the sun shone on him" (Exodus 22:2): a different approach. / Greenstein, Edward L.
Ben Porat Yosef: Studies in the Bible and Its World, Essays in Honor of Joseph Fleishman. ed. / Michael Avioz; Omer Minka; Yael Shemesh. Münster, 2019. p. 35-41 (Alter Orient und Altes Testament; Vol. 458).

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