c. 740 BCE–c. 500 BCE
Debated transmission and redaction of Hebrew legal collections
Law & constitutions · Text, law, and tradition
Legal collections now embedded in Exodus and other biblical texts preserve norms on injury, property, labor, and worship. Their dates, mutual dependence, and relation to judicial practice remain debated; they are recorded as a developing literary and normative tradition, not as precisely datable state legislation or a modern rights charter.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- End
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: duration of a process.
Sources
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Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Pending verification: the source could not be accessed
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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