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The Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity is a unique reference work that provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 2000 BC to approximately AD 600. Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, with contributions by many others, this unique reference work...

with a fine. According as the husband of the woman might impose, he shall pay with judicial assessment. But if it is fully formed, he shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.” The distinction between an “unformed” and a “formed” child may have been influenced by the views of Aristotle. The usual Greek word for abortion, amblōsis, is never used in the NT. Paul in his humility (1 Cor 15:8) refers to himself as an extrōma, which can at times mean an abortion, but which
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