The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law

Pamela Barmash is a professor of Hebrew Bible at Washington University in St. Louis and has served as director of Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies there. She has been a fellow at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She is the author of Homicide in the Biblical World, and she is the co-editor of Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations.

The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Law is an ambitious attempt to take stock of these intellectual shifts as part of a wide-ranging, compelling account of biblical law as a cultural phenomenon, body of literature, and crucial piece of Jewish and Christian religious heritage.

• Introduction Legal Institutions and Fundamental ConceptsCovenantSocial JusticeOffences Against Human Beings in Public and Private Law Litigation: Trial Procedure, Jurisdiction, Evidence, TestimonyWomen, Children, Slaves, and Foreigners Ritual Law: Sacrifice and Holy DaysRitual Law: Priests, Purity, and the Sanctuary "An Eye for an Eye and Capital Punishment Legal Texts of the BibleThe Decalogue The Book of the CovenantThe Priestly LawThe Holiness LegislationThe Deuteronomic ReformLaw and NarrativesDetermining the Date of the Legal Texts of the Hebrew Bible Law in the Canon of the Hebrew BibleThe Role of Law in the Formation of the Pentateuch and the Canon The Law and the Prophets Law and the Wisdom Tradition The Legacy of the Ancient Near East Context of Biblical LawLaw Collections and Legal Forms and InstitutionsAncient Near Eastern Treaties and Biblical LawThe Pre-Exilic Monarchy and the LawLaw in the Persian Period The Late Second Temple Period and Beyond -- Reflections on Biblical Law Within Emerging Jewish Communities Law in the Late Second Temple Period in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and in Intertestamental and Diaspora Sources Judaism and Christianity: Diverging Paths in the Centuries after the Destruction of the Second TempleThe Bible and the Sources of Rabbinic Law The Law and the Gospels, with Attention to the Relationship Between the Decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount/PlainEthics and Moral Duties in Jewish Law Paul and the CovenantRabbinic Law Ritual Law in Rabbinic Judaism Women, Children, and Slaves in Jewish LawWomen, Children, Slaves, and the Law in the New Testament Period Social Justice in Early ChristianitySocial Justice in Rabbinic Judaism