Animals in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Law: Tort and Ethical Laws

Idan Breier

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Abstract This article examines the attitude toward animals in the Pentateuch and ancient Near Eastern legal codes. Employing a comparative approach, it analyzes criminal and tort law in relation to animals and their carers—stealing and finding animals used in factory farms, the responsibility of watchmen and renters, and that of the legal “owners” of animals who cause damage. Demonstrating how animals form part of the biblical ethical system, in which ethical demands become binding statutes, it looks at why this process only occurred in the Hebrew Bible and not in other ancient Near Eastern cultures.

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1997Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor 1952Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament 2001The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt 2011The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics 2000Problems of moral philosophy 1992Mesopotamia: writing, reasoning, and the Gods 2005Purposive Interpretation in Law 2003Humanism of the Other

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