No Name

Peter J. Leithart, October 19, 2004

Walsh has this intriguing comment about the man stone to death for blasphemy in Lev 24: "The man is oddly anonymous, although his Israelite mother, his maternal grandfather, and his tribal forefather are all named. This is a more subtle invocation of the law of the talion: the man who blasphemes the divine name shall lose his own."