URL: http://ttpstudents.com/papers/ets/2006/Sprinkle/Sprinkle.html

Summary:
by Joe M. Sprinkle
2002

James Watts writes, "Lawyers and judges do not usually read law books from beginning to end like novels. Instead, laws are collected, compared, harmonized, codified, and in general arranged systematically so as to preclude the necessity of ever having to read the whole code through from start to finish." As Watts goes on to note, this is exactly how the regulations of the Pentateuch often have been read by traditional Jewish and Christian readers as well as modern critical scholars. The laws of the Pentateuch have regularly been analyzed by themselves without much consideration to the narrative context in which they are embedded...

Category: Biblical Theology

Tags: Exodus, Law, Narrative, Pentateuch