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Cause or Value? Problems in the Understanding of Gen 9,6a

Zehnder, Markus

In: Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 2010, vol. 122, no. 1, p. 81-89

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    Title
    • Cause or Value? Problems in the Understanding of Gen 9,6a
    Author
    • Zehnder, Markus. Universität Basel / Ansgar Theological Seminary
    Document Type
    • Postprint
    Language
    • German
    Published in
    • Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 2010, vol. 122, no. 1, p. 81-89. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
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    Classification
    • Religion, Theology
    OAI-PMH Identifier
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:300658
    Summary
    Genesis 9,6a, mostly translated as >>Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed<<, has often been understood as a divine ordinance prescribing the death penalty for (intentional) murderers. Others have proposed to interpret the preposition beth not as a beth causae, but as a beth pretii. This article seeks to demonstrate that the linguistic categories of causation and value that must be distinguished in most Western languages can effectively be combined in biblical Hebrew in the use of the preposition beth