
The Laws of the Imperialized
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- Intro
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Topic
- Methods and Historical Context (Chapters 1-2)
- Scope and Key Arguments (Chapters 3-5)
- CHAPTER 1 Responses of the Imperialized to Empires
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Characteristics of Colonized Peoples' Discourse in General
- 1.2.1 Hybridity as a Key Characteristic
- 1.2.2 Motivation Behind, Outcome of, and Approaches of Hybridity
- 1.2.3 Hybridity of Colonized Elites
- 1.3 Legal Discourse of the Colonized
- 1.3.1 Importance of Law to the Colonized
- 1.3.2 Hegemony and Resistance in the Legal Discourse of the Colonized and their Elites
- 1.3.3 Colonized Peoples' Responses to Colonizers' Legal Discourse
- 1.3.4 Continuity and Discontinuity of Colonizers' Legal Discourse
- 1.4 Implications for Analysis of Exodus 19-24
- 1.4.1 Musa W. Dube's Analysis of Exodus as an Imperializing Text
- 1.4.2 Gale A. Yee's Postcolonial Analysis of Exodus 19-20 and Related Passages
- 1.4.3 Shiju Mathew's Postcolonial Womanist Reading of the Book of the Covenant
- 1.4.4 R. S. Wafula's Postcolonial Analysis of Exodus
- 1.5 Chapter Conclusions
- CHAPTER 2 Relationship of Exodus 19-24 to Cuneiform Law Collections
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Meta-Traditions, Direct Dependence, or Response of the Imperialized?
- 2.2.1 Key Concerns in Previous Studies
- 2.2.2 Recent Focus on the Criteria for Determining the Relationship
- 2.2.3 Trace of Attention to Authors' Social Location and Complex Characteristics
- 2.2.4 A Postcolonial Understanding and Propositions of this Study
- 2.3 Relationship of the People of Israel and Judah to Empire
- 2.3.1 Dating of Exodus 19-24
- 2.3.2 The Assyrians and the People of Israel and Judah
- 2.4 Purposes of Exodus 19-24
- 2.4.1 Law Used in Court
- 2.4.2 Scribal Exercise
- 2.4.3 Judicial References
- 2.4.4 Wisdom-Moral Teachings
- 2.4.5 Propaganda with Religious Features
- 2.4.6 Multiple Purposes
- 2.4.7 Legal Discourse of the Imperialized
- 2.5 Authors' Social Lo cation and Positions toward the Empire
- 2.6 Chapter Conclusions
- CHAPTER 3 Slaves and Women in the Ordinances (Exodus 21:2-22:16)
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Ordinances on Slaves
- 3.2.1 Priority of the Ordinances
- 3.2.2 Release and Permanent Servitude
- 3.2.3 Physical Assault
- 3.2.4 Other Possibly Related Ordinances
- 3.3 Ordinances on Women
- 3.3.1 Assaults against Parents (Exodus 21:15, 21:17)
- 3.3.2 Physical Assault against Pregnant Women (Exodus 21:22-25)
- 3.3.3 Seduction of Unbetrothed Maidens (Exodus 22:15-16)
- 3.4 Chapter Conclusions
- CHAPTER 4 Yhwh, the Marginalized, and Enemies in the Commandments (Exodus 20:23-21:1 and 22:17-23:33)
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Services to Yhwh or the Gods
- 4.3 Care for the Marginalized
- 4.4 Fighting against Enemies
- 4.5 Chapter Conclusions
- CHAPTER 5 Yhwh, Moses, and the People in the Narrative (Exodus 19:1-20:22 and 24:1-18)
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Gods, Human Leaders, and the People in the Pronouncement of the Law
- 5.3 Chapter Conclusions
- CHAPTER 6 Conclusions
- 6.1 From the Colonized in Modern Contexts to the Imperialized in Israel and Judah
- 6.2 The Wrestling of the Imperialized
- 6.3 Implications
- Bibliography
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