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Bruce Wells specializes in the study of the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East. His scholarship is focused on legal ideas and traditions within the Pentateuch, examining the legal system and its cultural context during the Neo-Babylonian period, and the well-documented periods of antiquity. He has published extensively on texts and practices related to litigation, marriage, divorce, sexual relations, slavery, and judicial authority, as well as the nature of biblical and ancient Near Eastern law. His research is concentrated on legal documents, including trial records and contracts, alongside economic and administrative records from the ancient Near East, providing crucial data for understanding the intellectual and cultural environment of biblical authors. He is the author of "Law and Testimony: The Pentateuchal Codes" (2004), and has co-authored several works, such as "Everyday Law in Biblical Israel" (2009) with Raymond Westbrook and "Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts" (2019) with F. Rachel Magdalene Cornelia Wunsch. He is also the editor of the upcoming "Cambridge Companion to Law and the Hebrew Bible" (2024).
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