The Alien in Israelite Law: A Study of the Changing Legal Status of Strangers in Ancient Israel

Name: The Alien in Israelite Law: A Study of the Changing Legal Status of Strangers in Ancient Israel
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Author: Christiana van Houten
ISBN: 9780567111401

A Study of the Changing Legal Status of Strangers in Ancient Israel

by Christiana van Houten

Paperback
200 pages
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
15.6 x 23.4 x 1.1 cm

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One of the first systematic and critical reconstructions of the history of the social class of aliens in ancient society, this study develops new insights gained from the sociological approach to biblical literature. As Israel developed from tribal society to state, from state to confessional community and from confessional community to province, the identity and legal status of the alien developed in a concomitant way. Laws which initially afforded the alien only partial social and cultic inclusion in the pre-exilic period eventually required complete equality between the alien and Israelite in the postexilic period.