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In this book William Morrow surveys four major law collections in Exodus–Deuteronomy and shows how they each enabled the people of Israel to create and sustain a community of faith. Treating biblical law as dynamic systems of thought facilitating ancient Israel’s efforts at self-definition, Morrow describes four different social contexts that gave rise to biblical law: Israel at the holy...

The concept of the Jubilee Year is an expression of biblical law at its most idealistic and utopian. Regardless as to when Leviticus 25 is dated, there is no reason to think it was ever put into practice. What was its value, therefore, to ancient readers of the Torah? Most likely, Leviticus 25 provided an important expression of two significant theological ideas that Israel needed to commit to as it anticipated a rather uncertain future. The first is connected to the belief
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