Why Study Crime and Punishment in the Hebrew Bible with Tarah Van De Wiele

Dr Carly Crouch and Tarah Van De Wiele discuss how crime – a wrong breaking a law – and the punishment of crime are dealt with in the Hebrew Bible /Old Testament. Crime and its punishment is, indeed, a key theme in this whole collection of texts. The most famous expression of this is the notion of ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’ (Ex 21:24; Lev 24:20; and Deut 19:21), known as the ‘law of talion’ (lex talionis) and this video notes how this is still a very powerful notion in most cultures today. Other videos you may find useful; Why Study Hebrew with Peter Watts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6K8KAuJnEU A Walk Through the Old Testament with Margaret Barker; Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-McdW00M9Y Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9kjWt_L_8 Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yduuTRVqoTg Part 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKzECtLpurY