Wesen und Herkunft des Apodiktischen Rechts

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Gerstenberger's work challenges the notion that "apodictic" laws in the Old Testament are uniquely Israelite or derived solely from liturgical origins. He utilizes the narrative of Jonadab and the Rechabites in Jeremiah 35, alongside the incest prohibitions in Leviticus 18, to illustrate that these laws are rooted in tribal ethos. The author posits that the literary contexts found in the Covenant Code, Holiness Code, and Deuteronomic texts represent secondary applications rather than primary origins of these prohibitions.