Outraging the Resident-Alien

Daniel Bodi (1)

1 ARCHIMEDE - Étude des Civilisations de l'Antiquité : de la Préhistoire à Byzance

This article compares the treatment that king David inflicted on Uriah the Hittite in 2 Sam 11, who was a "ger tôsah", "resident alien" according to the rabbis, and the outrage that a high official of a pharaoh committed to an "ubaru", "resident-alien" in El-Amarna times.

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Keywords: king David; Uriah the Hittite

Domains: Archaeology and Prehistory; History

Daniel Bodi. Outraging the Resident-Alien: King David, Uriah the Hittite, and an El-Amarna Parallel. Ugarit-Forschungen, 2003, pp.29-56. ⟨halshs-00105136⟩