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An Inquiry into the Foundations of Law: J. Locke’s Natural Right in the Biblical Scholarship of J. Wellhausen and C.E.B. Cranfield by Terence Kleven

An Inquiry into the Foundations of Law: J. Locke’s Natural Right in the Biblical Scholarship of J. Wellhausen and C.E.B. Cranfield by Terence Kleven

October 20, 1997
This essay is a critical evaluation of John Locke's account of natural right as it is manifest in the biblical scholarship of J. Wellhausen and CE.B. Cranfield. It provides a summary of the accounts of law given by Wellhausen and Cranfield respectively in order to show that certain views of law, that is, certain theological-political teachings, have been central to the emergence of modern biblical scholarship.