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Episode 345: Torah! Torah! Torah! with Dr. John Walton

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The Law of the Ancient World

Legal collections in the ancient world are not legislation. They're a list of hypothetical case law ye like if this occurs, this is what i would doye. The gathering of lists was a way to consolidate wisdom about something. So when they gather together these legal sayings, basically the king uses those to say to the gods, you expect me to be a just king. I'm being just king. That's wisdom too. But when you have punishments, ritisiso say what it would in scripture, punishments, an a lastings and curses. In millennia, john john be very different to day thram what it was in the od wha werexing evolution though, john.

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