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Inventing God's Law
How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi
Recommended in 3 episodes of Data Over Dogma, first in “Abortion and the Bible” (September 11, 2023).
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- Abortion and the Bible▶ 47:14
Topic: Covenant Code's literary dependence on the Laws of Hammurabi
Excerpt“There's a wonderful book by a scholar, a former Latter-day Saint scholar named David Wright called "Inventing God's Law," where he demonstrates, I think convincingly, that the Covenant Code is borrowing directly from the laws of Hammurabi…”
- The Ten (ish) Commandments▶ 7:45
Topic: Relationship of the covenant code to the Laws of Hammurabi
Excerpt“And a great book that discusses the relationship of the two is a book by David Wright called "Inventing God's Law."”
- Banning the Bible?▶ 17:38
Topic: Covenant Code's dependence on Hammurabi's Code
Excerpt“There's a great book that discusses all the evidence for this by a wonderful scholar named David Wright called "Inventing God's Law,"”
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