Abstract
This chapter discusses Holiness code (H) in conjunction with the two corpora (Deuteronomic Code and the Book of the Covenant). Traditionally, the laws of the Pentateuch have been understood as positive law, meant for use in the courts of law. For a number of reasons, the law codes of the Pentateuch cannot be regarded as collections of positive law comparable to the Roman or Napoleonic codes. Now, in every one of these characteristics, the biblical law codes resemble the Ancient Near Eastem (ANE) law codes unearthed in the course of the present century. The most forceful argument in favour of a literary approach has come from Schwartz. In his view; the law corpora of the Pentateuch were never meant to function independently of the narrative framework in which they occur. They were from the outset designed for insertion in the narrative. The one-sidedness of Schwartz' approach is open to criticism.Keywords: ancient near Eastem (ANE) law codes; biblical law codes; Book of the Covenant; Deuteronomic Code; Holiness code (H); Schwartz' approach
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