How God Became a Lawgiver: The Place of the Torah in Ancient Near Eastern Legal History

Project Information

DIVLAW

Grant agreement ID: 833222

DOI

10.3030/833222

Project closed

EC signature date 9 April 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 30 June 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 500 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT ZURICH
Switzerland

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

›Writing on the Heart‹ (Jer 31:31–34): An Allusion to Scribal Training? A Response to Joachim J. Krause

Author(s): Konrad Schmid
Published in: Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Issue 132/3, 2020, ISSN 1613-0103
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/zaw-2020-3006

Review of The Laws of Hammurabi: At the Confluence of Royal and Scribal Traditions, by Pamela Barmash

Author(s): Dylan R. Johnson
Published in: Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte, Issue 28, 2022, Page(s) 265–270, ISSN 0948-0587
Publisher: Harrassowitz

'I established justice and equity in the mouth of the land.' A New Proposal for LH Prologue col. v, 20ʹ–24'

Author(s): Dylan R. Johnson
Published in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, Issue 4/2021, 2021, ISSN 0989-5671
Publisher: Société pour l’étude du Proche-Orient ancien

Die Lesbarkeit der Welt. Monotheismus und Schöpfung durch das Wort in Genesis 1

Author(s): Konrad Schmid
Published in: Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte, Issue 27/2021, 2021, ISSN 0948-0587
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
DOI: 10.13173/zeitaltobiblrech.27.2021.0187

Is the Holiness Code Law? An Assessment Based on Semantic Observations, Form Critical Observations, and a Criteriology from the Anthropology of Law

Author(s): Matthias Hopf
Published in: Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte, Issue 28, 2022, Page(s) 97–110, ISSN 0948-0587
Publisher: Harrassowitz

Exodus: Die biblische Überlieferung und ihre historischen Hintergründe in der neueren Forschungsdiskussion

Author(s): Konrad Schmid
Published in: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie, Issue 73/3, 2021, ISSN 2366-7796
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/zpt-2021-0031

Das göttliche Recht und die priesterlichen Schreibergruppen. Erkenntnisse aus dem Proverbienbuch

Author(s): Lida Panov
Published in: Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte, Issue 28/2022, 2022, Page(s) 147–167, ISSN 0948-0587
Publisher: Harrassowitz
DOI: 10.5167/uzh-225921

The Neo-Documentarian Manifesto: A Critical Reading

Author(s): Konrad Schmid
Published in: Journal of Biblical Literature, Issue 140/ 3, 2021, ISSN 0021-9231
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis

The Significance of the Divine Torah in Ptolemaic Egypt in Documentaryand Literary Sources from the Third and Second Centuries BCE

Author(s): Peter Altmann
Published in: Journal for the Study of Judaism, Issue quarterly journal, 2021, Page(s) 1-31, ISSN 0047-2212
Publisher: Brill

Light of the Land, Sun of the People: The Solarization of Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Lawgivers

Author(s): Dylan R. Johnson
Published in: Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religion, Issue 22, 2022, Page(s) 16-54, ISSN 1569-2116
Publisher: Brill

Gott als Gesetzgeber: Entstehung und Bedeutung des Gottesrechts der Tora im Rahmen der altorientalischen Rechtsgeschichte

Author(s): Konrad Schmid
Published in: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche (ZThK), Issue 118/3, 2021, ISSN 0044-3549
Publisher: J.C.B.Mohr
DOI: 10.1628/zthk-2021-0014

The Torah and the King: Zedekiah’s Edict (Jer 34) and Deuteronomistic Redaction

Author(s): Dylan R. Johnson
Published in: Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Issue 134/1, 2022, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 1613-0103
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/zaw-2022-0002

How Old Is the Hebrew Bible? A Response to Ronald Hendel and Jan Joosten

Author(s): Konrad Schmid
Published in: Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Issue 132/4, 2020, ISSN 1613-0103
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/zaw-2020-4006

Book chapters (7)

Textual, Historical, Sociological, and Ideological Cornerstones of the Formation of the Pentateuch

Author(s): Konrad Schmid
Published in: The Social Groups behind the Pentateuch,, 2021
Publisher: The Society of Biblical Literature

Die Natur und ihre Ordnungen in der Prophetie

Author(s): Konrad Schmid
Published in: Natur und Schöpfung, Jahrbuch für Biblische Theologie, Issue 34, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7887-3497-8
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Textual, Historical, Sociological, and Ideological Cornerstones of the Formation of the Pentateuch

Author(s): Konrad Schmid
Published in: The Social Groups behind the Pentateuch, Issue Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 44, 2021, ISBN 9781628374131
Publisher: The Society of Biblical Literature
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv28w3d6z.6

The Legal Contests in the Aramaic and Greek Versions of Daniel 2–7

Author(s): Peter Altmann
Published in: Menschsein in Weisheit und Freiheit: Festschrift für Thomas Krüger, Issue OBO 296/2022, 2022, Page(s) 332–45, ISBN 9789042948563
Publisher: Peeters
DOI: 10.5167/uzh-219705

Orientalism and the Hebrew Bible: How the History of Science Dealt with the Historical Origins of the Idea of Laws of Nature

Author(s): Konrad Schmid
Published in: Historical Settings, Intertextuality, and Biblical Theology. Essays in Honor of Marvin A. Sweeney, Issue FAT 160, 2022, Page(s) 303-313, ISBN 978-3-16-161980-9
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Auf dem Weg zum Gottesrecht. Die Theologisierung des Bundesbuches (Ex 20,22–23,33)

Author(s): Konrad Schmid
Published in: Kritische Schriftgelehrsamkeit in priesterlichen und prophetischen Diskursen Festschrift für Reinhard Achenbach zum 65. Geburtstag, Issue Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte 27, 2022, Page(s) 119-138, ISBN 978-3-447-11853-8
Publisher: Harrassowitz
DOI: 10.5167/uzh-220202

The Diaspora as a Blessing for the Nations: The Case of Gen 28:14

Author(s): Konrad Schmid
Published in: Yahwistic Diversity and the Hebrew Bible: Tracing Perspectives of Group Identity from Judah, Samaria, and the Diaspora in Biblical Traditions, Issue Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe, 2020, ISBN 978-3-16-158304-9
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-158305-6

Monographic books (1)

Sovereign Authority and the Elaboration of Law in the Bible and the Ancient Near East

Author(s): Dylan R. Johnson
Published in: Forschungen zum Alten Testament, Issue 2. Reihe 122, 2020, ISBN 978-3-16-159510-3
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck