On Lord Beliefs And Ancient Israel Torah Traditional Formation

Hebrew Bible is a religious Work which memorizes the lives of ancient Israel. What can be calling a Work is which can be observed from its various profiles. It is allowed there contains diversity and debating in the Work. Once people hear it they can imagine freely, and think freely when they read it. As the psalm saying:"Open my eyes, so that I may see the wonderful truths in your law", the dissertation is observing the Bible with a legal visual angle. Here, it will analyze a historic track of the legal tradition of ancient Israel, for the purpose to search the relation between Yahwism and the legal tradition of ancient Israel. Simultaneously, with the clue of Yahwism, it would like to show a traditional spirit of unwritten law behind the words in the Bible.The relations between Yahwism and the legal tradition of ancient Israel, to some degree, it could come down to three points. Firstly, only Yahwism did which sustain significance of the legal tradition of ancient Israel. It is the legal tradition which holds it together with the religious faith, ethnic identity, living order and transmit culture of ancient Israel. Nevertheless the legal tradition would have no point to stand and unmeaning without Yahwism. Secondly, it is Yahwism which stick those disordered legal materials. Hebrew Bible is social memories of compilers which were textualized into one Scripture, and then the Bible takes on a historic track with orientation of Covenant, D Code and P Code. The reason why those legal collections could be textualized, is the viscidity of Yahwism, or they were like separate sands, missing their way and purport. Thirdly, Yahwism decides the final character of Pentateuch. Someone regard the legal book as secular law, since he found lots of legal technical cases in the Bible which look like juridical materials. While it will be contraction itself, there have none juridical record in court as excavated in Palestine for archaeology. Those legal collections show no logic but experience. Moreover, Pentateuch lacks of legal integrality, and is abundant with ethic teaching. It is more like a moral propaganda than legal code. But it will lead to puzzle when regard it as moral propaganda, for which adjust relation among people, while here it is between God and man. Actually Pentateuch is not for juridical exertion, but for instructing its value, principle, concept and procedure with a spirit of unwritten law in the Bible. The basic framework is not for a written legal code, but for a narrative of ethnic origin, where the legal tradition was hided in stories. Biblical law is the only one which survives in people, comparing with other nationalities in ancient Near Orient. The secret of its living is that it put a spirit of unwritten law, namely Justice and Righteousness of God, into faithful narrative with a format of norms. The narrative of story is full of metaphors, which reveal innovations and give birth to new functions in the future. Unfortunately, the trend of culture is written in words ultimately, and it led to be canonized for Torah, the Pentateuch. Even more, some people regard it as secular law. It, then, made for new stages for emergences of Judaism, Christianism and Muslimism.The main framework of the dissertation shows the relation with seven aspects between Yahwism and the legal tradition of ancient Israel. Chapter one is a survey for religious and legal culture in ancient Near Orient. It explores the geopolitics of the area and explains legal tradition of ancient Israel is influent by whole civilization of ancient Near Orient deeply. Chapter two is a survey for the relations between Yahwism and the legal tradition of ancient Israel. It explores a relation between nationality and religion, faith and ethnic, the connotation of Yahwism and the meaning of Biblical narrative for Yahwism. Chapter three is a survey for the legal system of ancient Israel. It explores its scope, form, operation and purport in that time. Chapter four is a survey for the origin of the legal tradition of ancient Israel. This chapter contains two parts. One shows a historic track in ancient Israel which orients Covenant, D code and P code. This part will shepherd the next two chapters. Another analyzes the original Covenant, and some problems such as textual border, framework content, character, and influence, which show the relation of Yahwism. Chapter five is a survey for an accumulation of the legal tradition of ancient Israel. It explores the Deuteronomic Code as the accumulating stage, and some problems such as textual border, framework, content, character, and influence, which show the relation of Yahwism. Chapter is six a survey for the generation of the legal tradition of ancient Israel. It explores Priesthood Code as the generation stage, which usual shape it with their imagining, and some problems such as textual border, framework, content, character, and influence, which show the relation of Yahwism. The last Chapter is survey for characters and developments of the legal tradition of ancient Israel. Obviously it explores t characters of whole Pentateuch, and sum up that it is not a purpose for written law but for spirit of unwritten law in Hebrew Bible. This spirit gives lots of positive influence for aftertime.