Melton notes that state laws are “based on a retributive philosophy that is hierarchical, adversarial, punitive, and guided by codified laws and written rules, procedures, and guidelines.”[14] This is in contrast to tribal laws that are holistic, victim based, reparative, restorative, and tail...
Ancient sexual laws: Text and intertext of the biblical Holiness Code and Hittite Law.Our "interpretive grid," laid over the sexual world of the ancients, obscures for us what was important to them and how their notions of sexuality cohered as a system. Interpreters from Philo Judaeus to ...
2. "Laws of Nations" are those rules which, by a tacit consent, are agreed upon among all communities, at least among those who are reckoned the polite and humanized part of mankind. 3. "Laws of Natures." — "The word law is sometimes also employed in order to express not only the...
and I turned away from them, declares the Lord. This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will a ma...
By the ancient laws of France this crime was punishable with death. Before the Revolution the adulteress was usually condemned to a convent, where the husband could visit her during two years, and take her back if he saw fit. If he did not choose to receive her again by the expiration ...
Thomas Shepard wrote, in 1649, "For all laws, whether ceremonial or judicial, may be referred to the decalogue, as appendices to it, or applications of it, and so to comprehend all other laws as their summary."[6] It is an illusion to hold that such opinions were simply a Puritan abe...
After the Israelites were delivered out of Egypt, God took some time to enumerate various laws to his people and their priests, including a number of laws about proper worship. In this list of ritual law, God ordains a particular day during which the entire nation of Israel would set aside...
So Judea lost battles to foreigners, whom the prophets described as used by the Lord as his instrument to punish the Jews for their transgression against the economic and other moral laws that the Lord had laid down. Does one doubt that today’s greater Israel [the land over which it exert...
The principal duty of ministers of the Church is to lead men to the knowledge and worship of God, and the Church therefore requires laws and rules for the guidance of her ministers. The hierarchy of order, that of the ministration of the Word and sacraments, appertains to all clergy ...
Luther declared that "in the new covenant there is no longer a constraining and forcing law; and that those who must be scared and driven by laws are unworthy the name of Christians" (Luther, Werke, Walch's ed. 18, 1855). So, in his writings against the Zwickau enthusiasts, he was ...