Animals in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Law Codes

Idan Breier

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-12405-1_5

Animals in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Law Codes

Idan Breier

Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

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This chapter examines the attitude towards animals in the pentateuchal and ancient Near Eastern legal codes.Employing a comparative approach, it analyzes criminal and tort law in relation to animals and their owners—the stealing and finding of livestock, the responsibility of watchmen, workers, and legal “owners” of animals that cause damage.Demonstrating how fauna form part of the biblical ethical system, in which ethical demands become binding statutes, it looks at why this process only occurred in the Hebrew Bible and not in other ancient Near Eastern cultures.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	105-130
Number of pages	26
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12405-1_5
State	Published - 2022

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Name	Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
ISSN (Print)	2634-6672
ISSN (Electronic)	2634-6680

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