The Cambridge Companion to Law in the Hebrew Bible

Bruce Wells is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of The Law of Testimony in the Pentateuchal Codes (2004), co-author (with Raymond Westbrook) of Everyday Law in Biblical Israel (2009), and co-author (with F. Rachel Magdalene and Cornelia Wunsch) of Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts (2019).

Introduction Bruce Wells; Part I. The Historical Context of Biblical Law: 1. Law in the ancient Near East Sophie Demare-Lafont; 2. Law in the eastern Mediterranean Anselm C. Hagedorn; Part II. The Biblical Legal Collections: 3. The nature of the collections Bruce Wells; 4. The origins of the law Sara J. Milstein; 5. The narrative context of the collections Simeon Chavel; Part III. The Biblical Laws: 6. Substantive law Sandra Jacobs; 7. Procedural law Giovanna R. Czander; 8. Ritual law Michael B. Hundley; Part IV. Biblical Law and Other Scriptural Discourses: 9. Law and prophecy Reinhard Achenbach; 10. Law and prayer Shalom E. Holtz; 11. Law and wisdom Thomas Kruger; Part V. The Legacy of Biblical Law: 12. Biblical law and Dead Sea Scrolls Hannah K. Harrington; 13. Biblical law and the New Testament Thomas Kazen; 14. Biblical law and rabbinic literature Steven D. Fraade; 15. Biblical law and early Christian interpretation Adam Gregerman.