By Calum Carmichael
The foundation of legislation within the Hebrew Bible has lengthy been the topic of scholarly debate. till lately, the historico-critical methodologies of the academy have yielded unsatisfactory conclusions in regards to the resource of those legislation that are woven via biblical narratives. during this unique and provocative research, Calum Carmichael -- a number one student of biblical legislations and rhetoric -- means that Hebrew legislation was once encouraged through the research of the narratives in Genesis via 2 Kings.Discussing specific legislation present in the ebook of Leviticus -- addressing concerns similar to the Day of Atonement, intake of meat that also has blood, the Jubilee 12 months, sexual and physically infection, and the remedy of slaves -- Carmichael hyperlinks every one to a story. He contends that biblical legislation didn't emerge from social imperatives in historic Israel, yet as a substitute from the cautious, retrospective examine of the nation's historical past and id. (2008)
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2 Macc 7:27). We may be dealing with a discrepancy between story and rule in the sense that what the story relays is what prompted the lawgiver to articulate the proper rule. Or, alternatively and more likely, he set down the rule for the usual situation in which a child is not to be given over, as Samuel was, to the sanctuary. After a woman gives birth, there was to be a shorter lapse of time than in the story for her offering to be presented at the sanctuary. A plague of tumors affects the Philistines because of the Ark’s presence among them (1 Samuel 5, 6).
The rule begins with a concentration on a male’s emission,5 considers how the semen might come upon clothing or leather (skins),6 and then explicitly brings in a sexual partner’s contact with semen. The sexual partner is not necessarily a wife. Only the Samaritan text reads “her husband,” and critics rightly reject this reading in favor of the Massoretic text’s reading. ” The sentence continues the preceding focus on semen in verses 16 and 17. Why does the rule focus first on a male’s emission of semen before turning, in the same context, to an emission with a woman?
Rules about male uncleanness are presented (Lev 15:2–15) The first rule, Lev 15:2–15, reads (in part): When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean. And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is uncleanness. Every bed, whereon he lieth . . and every thing on which he sitteth, shall be unclean. And whoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes. . And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue.