even be said to have an eschatological quality, because they reach beyond the limit of legal process to the human will and so to places that law cannot control (as Leviticus 19 illustrates).63 The particularities of the codes, therefore, embodying norms that are sometimes quite alien to a modern readership (such as the assumptions about slavery which are entangled with the laws of jubilee, Lev. 25:44–46), have an intrinsically penultimate status, case-studies in the realization of justice in a particular