Hightailing It to the City of Refuge

["Hammer" Urabi]

26 minutes ago, Anna said:

@TrueTomHarley  you and your alter egos! 

First of all, the name is "Hammer" Urabi.

"Hammer" Rubi is an insufficiently-educated dolt who is not fit to untie my sandals.

Second of all, TrueTom who?

[Evacuated]

On 1/19/2018 at 2:23 PM, JW Insider said:

the 10 commandments themselves stand outside these sets of laws as unique. 

Thinking about this further from a legal perspective, it was a lawyer who stated (Rom.2:14-15):

"For when people of the nations, who do not have law, do by nature the things of the law, these people, although not having law, are a law to themselves.  They are the very ones who demonstrate the matter of the law to be written in their hearts, while their conscience is bearing witness with them, and by their own thoughts they are being accused or even excused."

Wouldn't this seem to add a perspective to the obvious connection between various ancient legal codes?

[JW Insider]

5 minutes ago, Gone Fishing said:

Wouldn't this seem to add a perspective to the obvious connection between various ancient legal codes?

Excellent! I think so, too.

Of course, there is much more to say on the topic of the intersections between Mosaic Law and other ancient legal codes. I was surprised at the level of literary agreement with the LH and related written codes. It's a little off-topic, but it appears to reach even beyond the actual content of the laws themselves (expected?), but to the style (expected?), structure (expected?) and even to the Epilogue and Prologue found in Exodus (unexpected!)

For myself, I don't think going much deeper is very useful right now, but the book and journal article I quoted from are easy to find if anyone wants to look into it more. I'll get back to this topic in a few days.