Additional thoughts to Exodus xxi, 22-23 in biblical and post biblical times.
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This study attempts to explain that the original law of Exod. xxi, 22-23 lost its original meaning but never lost its purpose in practical life in biblical and post biblical times
An attempt has been made to demonstrate that there was a clear development in the meaning of the law, because of a change in philosophical and medical views.
That actual situations have been freely interpolated in the protasis, was caused by the fact that the passage comprising this law was seriously disturbed. What was left was the oral tradition. This oral tradition was sensitive to cultural, philosophical and ethical influences.
The meaning of the law changed from a law that once protected the pregnant female slave against her master to a law that to the one hand protected the human fetus against criminal abortion and to the other hand saved the women in danger of hard labour.
J.G. te Lindert
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the human embryo in Jewish and Christian moral tradition. (dissertation)
This study deals with the status of the human embryo in Jewish and Christian tradition from a moral point of view. In Jewish and Christian ethics the question of the human embryo is connected with the biblical law in Exodus 21:22-25. This study investigates the influence of this law upon the different views of this law upon the embryo in the Jewish and Christian tradition.