@Osteopenia_Powers@newsie.social
Post #4065602
2026-07-24 14:31 UTC
@Lightfighter@infosec.exchange
The interpretation comes from Jewish scholarship in general and my Torah Commentary in particular. Although there are Biblical examples of death penalties, there are no Biblical examples of mutilation as legal punishment for crimes. Exodus here is *limiting* compensation for harms to the monetary value of the injury.
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@Lightfighter@infosec.exchange 2026-07-24 14:50
@Osteopenia_Powers@newsie.social OK, I wasn't parsing death versus mutilation within talionic justice. Now I see where you are coming from.
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@Osteopenia_Powers@newsie.social 2026-07-24 14:35
@Lightfighter@infosec.exchange 🧵/2 "The Torah law represented here an important stage in the development and extension of the sphere of criminal law and thereby had the important function of limiting private revenge, especially family or tribal feuds." --The Torah, a Modern Commentary, W. G. Plautt, Editor, pp 571-572