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Death of the Covenant Code: Capital Punishment in Old Greek Exodus in Light of Greco-Egyptian Law (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 211)
9004682031 pdf This work illuminates how the earliest and predominant Greek translation of Exodus significantly and surprisingly transforms the meaning of laws with capital punishment in the Covenant Code, and it suggests that these transformations might find their origin in Greco-Egyptian law.