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Book Review: The Early Career of the Prophet Jeremiah

structure, legal institutions, and substantive law within a culture. In Chapter 3, Marshall surveys the environmental and socioeconomic variables of ancient Israel and, having done so, projects a range of expected social, political, and legal possibilities for the people of Israel, which he then tests against the substantive law contained in biblical law codes. The third step in Marshall's analysis is an examination of BC laws, extracting information about culture, society, and values contained in them and integrating that information in to his theoretical model. While Chapters 4 and 5 include a close reading and detailed exegesis of the BC, Marshall gives less emphasis to literary and form-critical issues than do most scholars. Comparative study of ancient Near Eastern laws plays a very minor role in his analysis. His primary concern in these two chapters is to extrapolate the cultural information contained in the laws themselves. In his final chapter, Marshall synthesizes the information gathered in order to generate a reconstruction of the society that is reflected in the Be. On the basis of the reconstruction of the social context of the BC, he proposes that it reflects a period in Israelite history between Israel's beginnings as a segmentary society and its status as centralized state. He replaces the idea of a diachronic series of redactions with the thesis that what is represented in the Be are multiple legal levels that co-exist in societies. The emergence of centralized authority does not replace family law; it creates an additional legal level.