Abstract

‘“Keep my commandments”: biblical law’ examines the three major collections of divinely given laws and asks what society is presupposed by those laws. Biblical writers do not distinguish obligations to God from those to members of the community. Whereas we might separate religious obligations from criminal and civil law, the Decalogue, and biblical laws in general, do not do so. Many sections of the various legal collections have to do not only with strictly legal matters but also with religious obligations. The intermingling of these two categories is another illustration of the considerable overlap between sacred and secular.

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