Peairtach
Puritan Board Doctor
I found this book to be highly useful and enlightening in presenting the Mosaic case laws in context and giving other "Ancient Near Eastern" examples of similar laws.
Sadly the book has quite a number of refernces to the "Documentary Hypothesis"/JEDP, so I wouldn't recommend it to an inexperienced Christian. The apparent commitment by the authors to the possibility that the Doumentary Hypothesis doesn't however seem to detract from the usefulness of the book, because the JEDP theory is of so little relevance to the understanding the book gives of the case laws. It is quite easy to distinguish the little amount of chaff from the wheat.
Anyone who is interested in WCF Chapter 19:4
will be interested in understanding how these laws operated in their original context, and in the nature of biblical case law in general, and this book will be of assistance if used with discretion.
It's a pity if there is not a similar book available that subscribes to an orthodox view of the origin of the Pentateuch, but in the absence of that this will have to do.
http://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Law-...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331642224&sr=1-1
Sadly the book has quite a number of refernces to the "Documentary Hypothesis"/JEDP, so I wouldn't recommend it to an inexperienced Christian. The apparent commitment by the authors to the possibility that the Doumentary Hypothesis doesn't however seem to detract from the usefulness of the book, because the JEDP theory is of so little relevance to the understanding the book gives of the case laws. It is quite easy to distinguish the little amount of chaff from the wheat.
Anyone who is interested in WCF Chapter 19:4
IV. To them also, as a body politic, He gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the State of that people; not obliging under any now, further than the general equity thereof may require.
will be interested in understanding how these laws operated in their original context, and in the nature of biblical case law in general, and this book will be of assistance if used with discretion.
It's a pity if there is not a similar book available that subscribes to an orthodox view of the origin of the Pentateuch, but in the absence of that this will have to do.
http://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Law-...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331642224&sr=1-1