• Helmer Ringgren, "Israel", in The Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations (Arthur Cotterell, ed., 1980)
• Robert R. Wilson, "The Role of Law in Early Israelite Society", in Law, Politics and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Baruch Halpen, ed., 1993)
• Michael Walzer, "The Legal Codes of Ancient Israel", 4 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 335 (1992)
• Exodus 18:13-27; 19:1-25; 20:1-18; 22:1-26; 23:1-12; 24:3-8, 12-18
• Hanoch Reviv, The Elders in Ancient Israel 57-70 (1983)
• Ruth 4:1-12
• Ake Viborg, Symbols of Law: A Contextual Analysis of Legal Symbolic Acts in the Old Testament 1-6, 146-165 (1992)

Recommended Reading

• Hans Jochen Boecker, Law and the Administration of Justice in the Old Testament and Ancient East (1980)
• Ronald A. Brauner, " To Grasp the Hem' and 1 Samuel 15:27", 6 Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University 35 (1974)
• Todd Buchholz, "Biblical Laws and the Economic Growth of Ancient Israel", 6 Journal of Law and Religion 389 (1988)
• Calim M. Carmichael, Law and Narrative in the Bible (1985)
• David Daube, Studies in Biblical Law (1947)
• David Daube, Ancient Jewish Law (1981)
• Elliot N. Dorff & Arthur Rosett, A Living Tree: The Roots and Growth of Jewish Law (1988)
• Robert C. Ellickson and Charles DiA Thorland, "Ancient Land Law: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel", 71 Chicago-Kent Law Review 321 (1995)
• Ze'ev W. Falk, Hebrew Law in Biblical Times (1964)
• Hillel Gamoran, "The Biblical Law Against Loans on Interest", 30 Journal of Near Eastern Studies 127 (1971)
• Moshe Greenberg, "Some Postulates of Biblical Criminal Law", in Essential Papers on Israel and the Ancient Near East 33 (1991)
• Samuel Greengus, "Filling Gaps: Laws Found in Babylonia and in the Mishna But Absent in the Hebrew Bible", 7 Maarav 149 (1991)
• Samuel Greengus, "Some Issues Relating to the Comparability of Laws and the Coherence of the Legal Tradition", in Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law (Bernard M. Levinson ed., 1994)
• David Weiss Halvini, Midrash, Mishnah and Gemara: The Jewish Predeliction for Justified Law (1986)
• Richard H. Hiers, "Transfer of Property by Inheritance and Bequest in Biblical Law and Tradition", 10 Journal of Law and Religion 121 (1993)
• Delbert R. Hillers, "Rite: Ceremonies of Law and Treaty in the Ancient Near East", in Religion and Law: Biblical-Judaic and Islamic Perspectives (1990)
• Bernard S. Jackson, "Ideas of Law and Legal Administration: A Semiotic Approach", in The World of Ancient Israel: Sociological, Anthropological and Political Perspectives (R.E. Clements ed., 1989) 185
• Bernard S. Jackson, "Legalism and Spirituality", in Religion and Law: Biblical-Judaic and Islamic Perspectives (1990)
• Bernard S. Jackson, "Modelling Biblical Law: The Covenant Code", 70 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1745 (1995)
• Bernard S. Jackson, "Practical Wisdom and Literary Artifice in the Covenant Code", 6 Jewish Law Association Studies 65 (1992)
• Ludwig Kohler, "Justice in the Gate", in Hebrew Man (1957)
• Saul Levmore, "Rethinking Group Responsibility and Strategic Threats in Biblical Texts and Modern Law", 71 Chicago-Kent Law Review 85 (1995)
• S.E. Loewenstraum, "Law", in 3 World History of the Jewish People: Ancient Times (Benjamin Mazar, ed., 1971)
• Meir Malul, "More on Pahad Yisaq (Genesis XXXI: 42, 53) and the Oath by the Thigh", 35 Vetus Testamentum 192 (1985)
• Jacob Milgrom, "The Legal Terms Slm and Brsw in the Bible", 35 Journal of Near Eastern Studies 271 (1976)
• Geoffrey P. Miller, "Contracts of Genesis", 22 Journal of Legal Studies 15 (1993)
• Yochanan Muffs, Love & Joy: Law, Language and Religion in Ancient Israel (1992)
• E.W. Nicholson, "The Covenant Ritual in Exodus XXIV:3-8", 32 Vetus Testamentum 74 (1982)
• Eckart Otto, "Aspects of Legal reforms and Reformulations in Ancient Cuneiform and Israelite Law", in Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law (Bernard M. Levinson ed., 1994)
• Dale Patrick, Old Testament Law (1985)
• Anthony Phillips, Ancient Israel's Criminal Law (1970)
• Nahum M. Sarna, "The Laws", in Understanding Exodus: The Heritage of Biblical Israel (1969)
• Aaron M. Schreiber, "Biblical Law in Contextual Perspective", in Jewish Law and Decision-Making: A Study Through Time (1979)
• Helen Silving, "The Jurisprudence of the Old Testament", 28 New York University Law Review 1129 (1953)
• E.A. Speiser, "I Know Not the Day of My Death", 74 Journal of Biblical Literature 252 (1955)
• E.A. Speiser, "Of Shoes and Shekels", 77 BASOR [American School of Oriental Research Bulletin] 15 (1940)
• Ferris J. Stephens, "The Ancient Significance of Sisith", 50 Journal of Biblical Literature 59 (1931)
• Moshe Weinfeld, "The Covenant of Grant in the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East", in Essential Papers on Israel and the Ancient Near East (1991)
• Raymond Westbrook, "What is the Covenant Code?", in Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law (Bernard M. Levinson ed., 1994)
• C.F. Whitley, "Covenant and Commandment in Israel", 22 Journal of Near Eastern Studies 37 (1963)
• Reuven Yaron, "The Goring Ox in Near Eastern Laws", in Jewish Law in Ancient and Modern Israel (Haim Cohen, ed., 1971)

Suggestions for new Readings are always appreciated.