David P. Wright

David P. Wright is a Brandeis scholar of the HebrewHebrewA Northwest Semitic language in the Canaanite group, with ancient and modern forms.Glossary · Click to read the explanation Bible and ancient Near EastAncient Near EastA historical and geographical term covering Mesopotamia, the Levant and neighbouring ancient societies.Glossary · Click to read the explanation, researching ritualRitualAn organised or distinguished practice meaningful to a community; it may leave traces, but its form alone does not reveal an associated doctrine.Glossary · Click to read the explanation, law and Semitic languagesSemitic languagesA language family including Akkadian, Ugaritic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic.Glossary · Click to read the explanation. ^[1]

Inventing God’s Law (2009) argues for the Covenant CollectionCovenant CollectionScholarly name for laws in Exodus chapters 20–23, within the Torah, addressing service, injuries, property and worship. Their composition date is debated.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s literary dependenceLiterary dependenceA relationship explaining a text’s composition through another text.Glossary · Click to read the explanation on HammurabiHammurabiKing of Babylon in Mesopotamia, reigning around 1792–1750 BCE. A celebrated legal text preserved on a stele and cuneiform copies bears his name.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s text. The archive discusses this model and its scholarly debate. ^[2]