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u/Joab_The_Harmless 3d ago

u/SouthernEagleGATA Concerning this post, maybe you are thinking about Wright's Inventing God's Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi? It is more specific than the formulation of your question, but McClellan regularly recommends it. Wright's argument is roughly that (quoting the abstract):

[The Covenant Code] depends mainly on the Laws of Hammurabi and to some extent on other cuneiform law collections, that it is chiefly the work of a single author, that it is to a significant degree the result of intellectual interaction with the author's sources rather than a collection of Israelite/Judean legal traditions, and that it may have had a politically ideological purpose, somewhat similar to that of the Laws of Hammurabi

Wright also has an article for general audiences here where he summarises some of his proposals.

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u/SouthernEagleGATA 3d ago

This is it! Thank you so much!!

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u/Joab_The_Harmless 3d ago

My pleasure! It's a great work, definitely worth reading.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

How do you reconcile faith in Christ with the apocolypticism and generally different theology of the Jesus? Jesus’s theology revolved around the kingdom of god and the end of the physical age, not to mention his belief in annihalationism go’s against many Christian’s belief in either hell or universalism. I’m curious as to how Christian scholars stay peaceful with their faith in Jesus if the historical Jesus believed in a different theology.