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Article: Injustice Made Legal: Deuteronomic Law and the Plight of Widows, Strangers, and Orphans in Ancient Israel.(Book Review)
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- Theological Studies
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- March 1, 2004
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By Harold V. Bennett. The Bible in Its World. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002. Pp. xiii + 209. $28.
This is a surprising book. The dusk jacket proclaims it "daring" and "necessary reading for anyone interested in the Hebrew Bible, ancient history, or social justice issues." Bennett argues that certain laws in Deuteronomy for these disadvantaged groups were written from motivation other than sheer compassion and humanitarianism. Using critical theory and relentless analysis on certain Deuteronomic laws, he concludes that cultic functionaries, participants of the Yahweh-alone movement at the time of the Omride dynasty of the Northern Kingdom, created certain of these ...