Law and Narrative in the Bible and in Neighbouring Ancient Cultures
Klaus-Peter Adam, Friedrich Avemarie, Dorit Felsch, "Law and Narrative in the Bible and in Neighbouring Ancient Cultures"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 3161508432 | PDF | pages: 433 | 5,8 mb
English | 2012 | ISBN: 3161508432 | PDF | pages: 433 | 5,8 mb
The articles in the present volume originate from a conference on “Ab-stract Law and Case Narrative in the Bible and in Neighbouring Ancient Cultures”, which was held, with the support of the Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft, at Marburg in September 2009.
The focus of the conference was set on the manifold ways in which nar-rative texts—the fundamental difference in genre notwithstanding—can relate to the laws and legal traditions that are formative in their cultural background. Fictional narrative can be critical of a legal reality or ideal; echo attempts to change it; serve exhortatory purposes; or simply reflect current legal practice. Moreover, narratives are indispensible elements in a law suit, where litigants, in defending their respective versions of past events, explicitly or implicitly draw on legal norms considered to be applicable to their case. Conversely, casuistic law includes the hypothetic narration which anticipates possible real cases; and legal corpora, such as the vast body of talmudic literature, can contain shorter narrative forms such as exempla and precedents.
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