Biblical Law Section

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Presider: Reinhard Achenbach, Westfälische-Wilhelms University (Münster)

Pamela Barmash, Washington University
Law and Narrative in Genesis

Diana Lipton, King's College London
Legal Analogy in Deuteronomy and Fratricide in the Field

Bruce Wells, Saint Joseph's University
The Story of the Hated Wife in Genesis and in Deuteronomy

Klaus-Peter Adam, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Inadvertence in Abstract Legal Terminology in Asylum Laws and in Narratives

Calum Carmichael, Cornell University
Jacob’s “Red, Red Dish” and the Ritual of the Red Heifer