The divine courtroom in comparative perspective

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The divine courtroom in comparative perspective

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Contributors to 'The divine courtroom in comparative perspective' treat one of the most pervasive religious metaphors, that of the divine courtroom, in both its historical and thematic senses. In order to shed light on the various manifestations of the divine courtroom, this volume consists of essays by scholars of the ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, Talmud, Islam, medieval Judaism, and classical Greek literature. Contributions to the volume primarily center upon three related facets of the divine courtroom: the role of the divine courtroom in the earthly legal system; the divine courtroom as the site of historical justice; and the divine courtroom as the venue in which God is called to answer for his own unjust acts.

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Publisher
Brill
Language
English
Pages
308

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Table of Contents

Introduction : The divine courtroom in comparative perspective / Ari Mermelstein and Shalom E. Holtz
Divine judges on earth and in heaven / Tzvi Abusch
The divine courtroom scenes of Daniel 7 and the Qumran Book of giants : a textual and contextual comparison / Joseph L. Angel
Justice without judgment : pure procedural justice and the divine courtroom in Sifre Deuteronomy / Chaya Halberstam
Rabbi Nissim of Girona on the heavenly court, truth, and justice / Warren Zev Harvey
The divine courtroom motif in the Hebrew Bible : a holistic approach / Job Y. Jindo
Getting perspective : the divine courtroom in Tertullian of Carthage's Apologeticum / Meira Z. Kensky
Disqualified olympians : the skeptical Greek view of divine judges / Victor Bers and Adriaan Lanni
A life of Jesus as testimony : the divine courtroom and the Gospel of John / Andrew T. Lincoln
Trying the crime of abuse of royal authority in the divine courtroom and the incident of Naboth's vineyard / F. Rachel Magdalene
The invention of the divine courtroom in the book of Job / Carol A. Newsom
The qāḍī before the judge : the social use of eschatology in Muslim courts / Mathieu Tillier
Lawsuits against God in rabbinic literature / Dov Weiss.

Edition Notes

Includes papers presented at a conference held "on February 5-6, 2012, the Leonard and Bea Diener Institute of Jewish Law and the Yeshiva University Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, 'The Divine Courtroom, ' at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Leiden, Boston
Series
Biblical interpretation series -- volume 132, Biblical interpretation series -- v. 132.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
202/.117
Library of Congress
KB150 .D58 2015, KB150D58 2014, KB150 D58 2014, KB150 .D58 2014, KB150 D58 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 308 pages
Number of pages
308

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28411626M
ISBN 10
9004281630
ISBN 13
9789004281639, 9789004281646
LCCN
2014026700
OCLC/WorldCat
884242826

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