Law, Legend, and Incest in the Bible: Behavior and Ecology of Odonata

by Calum M. Carmichael

Interpreting the perennially perplexing sexual regulations of Leviticus 1820 in a radically new way, Calum M. Carmichael offers a key to understanding not only the texts themselves but also the nature of lawgiving throughout the Pentateuch. Carmichael identifies and offers solutions to puzzles such as why the lawgiver explicitly prohibits certain obviously wrongful acts (such as a son's intercourse with a mother), but not others (such as full brother...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801433886
• ISBN13: 9780801433887
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 209 Pages