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- Bachelors Philosophy Princeton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Pearson Wright is an American theologian and the professor of Bible and the Ancient Near East at Brandeis University. He is a scholar in the field of the Hebrew Bible, especially the composition of the Pentateuch and inner-biblical exegesis, as well as Near Eastern and biblical ritual and law in comparative perspective.
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- Pomegranates and Golden Bells: Studies in Biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law, and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom (1995) (63)
- The Disposal of Impurity: Elimination Rites in the Bible and in Hittite and Mesopotamian Literature (1987) (43)
- Inventing God's Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi (2009) (42)
- The Gesture of Hand Placement in the Hebrew Bible and in Hittite Literature (1986) (23)
- Ritual in Narrative: The Dynamics of Feasting, Mourning, and Retaliation Rites in the Ugaritic Tale of Aqhat (2000) (15)
- Ritual Theory , Ritual Texts , and the Priestly-Holiness Writings of the Pentateuch (15)
- Holiness in Leviticus and Beyond (1999) (12)
- MUSIC AND DANCE IN 2 SAMUEL 6 (2002) (12)
- Creative sources for the music of Tōru Takemitsu (1993) (11)
- Graded Holiness: A Key to the Priestly Conception of the World (review) (2011) (11)
- The Temple Scroll: An Introduction, Translation and Commentary. Johann Maier. (1989) (7)
- Holiness, sex, and death in the Garden of Eden (1996) (7)
- “She Shall Not Go Free as Male Slaves Do”: Developing Views About Slavery and Gender in the Laws of the Hebrew Bible (2010) (6)
- Holiness in Leviticus and Beyond Differing Perspectives (2007) (5)
- Ritual Analogy in Psalm 109 (1994) (5)
- The Fallacies of Chiasmus. A Critique of Structures Proposed for the Covenant Collection (Exodus 20:23-23:19) (2004) (4)
- Purification From Corpse-Contamination in Numbers Xxxi 19-241 (1985) (3)
- Blown away like a bramble : The dynamics of analogy in Psalm 58 (1996) (3)
- The Compositional Logic of the Goring Ox and Negligence Laws in the Covenant Collection (Ex 21:28-36) (2004) (2)
- The God-Inspired Language of the Book of Mormon: Structuring and Commentary (1989) (1)
- The Laws of Hammurabi and the Covenant Code: A Response to Bruce Wells (2006) (1)
- Law and Creation in the Priestly-Holiness Writings of the Pentateuch (2019) (0)
- Review of Westbrook, Raymond and Bruce Wells, , Everyday Law in Biblical Israel: An Introduction Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 2009). (2011) (0)
- 12. Redactional Growth in the Apodictic Laws and the Covenant Code’s Relationship to the Exodus Narrative (2009) (0)
- The register of Thomas Langton, Bishop of Salisbury, 1485-93 (1985) (0)
- The Origin, Development, and Context of the Covenant Code (Exodus 20:23–23:19) (2014) (0)
- Book review: 'Creative sources for the music of Toru Takemitsu' by Noriko Ohtake (1993) (0)
- 7. Child Rebellion, Kidnapping, Sorcery, Bestiality, and Illicit Sacrifice (Exodus 21:15–17; 22:17–19) (2009) (0)
- Review of Everyday Law in Biblical Israel: An Introduction (2011) (0)
- The Adaption and Fusion of Near Eastern Treaty and Law in Legal Narrative of the Hebrew Bible (2020) (0)
- Ancient Near Eastern Literature and the Pentateuch (2021) (0)
- The Covenant Code Appendix (Exodus 23:20–33), Neo-Assyrian Sources, and Implications for Pentateuchal Study (2016) (0)
- Scripture, History, and Faith: A Round Table Discussion (1996) (0)
- Winona LaDuke: A Swope Endowed Lecture on Ethics, Religion, Faith, and Welfare - 2014 Race & Pedagogy National Conference (2014) (0)
- 11. The Themes and Ideology of the Apodictic Laws (Exodus 20:23–26; 21:1; 22:20–23:19) (2009) (0)
- The register of John Blyth, Bishop of Salisbury, 1493-1499 (2015) (0)
- A Maturing View of the Book of Mormon (2005) (0)
- 6. Homicide, Injury, Miscarriage, and Talion (Exodus 21:12–14, 18–27) (2009) (0)
- Deciphering a Definition: The Syntagmatic Structural Analysis of Ritual in the Hebrew Bible (2008) (0)
- 8. The Goring Ox and Negligence (Exodus 21:28–36) (2009) (0)
- Holiness in Israel. John G. Gammie (1991) (0)
- Westbrook, Raymond And Bruce Wells, Everyday Law In Biblical Israel: An Introduction (2013) (0)
- Joseph Smith’s Interpretation of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon (1998) (0)
- Ritual Speech in the Priestly-Holiness Prescriptions of the Pentateuch and its Near Eastern Context (2015) (0)
- 5. Debt-Slavery and the Seduction of a Maiden (Exodus 21:2–11; 22:15–16) (2009) (0)
- Maarav: A Journal for the Study of the Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures (1996) (0)
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