Before anything is said from Mount Sinai, Moses is already choosing judges in Israel and teaching them the law of God so that they can judge justly.
Before anything is said from Mount Sinai, Moses is already choosing judges in Israel and teaching them the law of God so that they can judge justly.
1. Is Ex 18 a dischronology? Deliberately presented out of sequence?
2. evidence for Cassuto’s claim that the torah is supplemental to a presumed legal code of Israel already extant, and only modifying minor areas?
3. Ennsian diversity within the pentateuch?
4. like (2): abraham obeyed God’s “statutes”, whatever pre-sinaitic legislation God had revealed non-textually.
5. Other?