Legal revision and religious renewal in ancient Israel /
This book examines the doctrine of transgenerational punishment found in the Decalogue - the idea that God punishes sinners vicariously, extending the punishment due them to three or four generations of their progeny. Although a 'God-given' law, the unfairness of punishing innocent people...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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