Böcker i David Daube's Gifford Lectures-serien

David Daube (1909-1999) was a world renowned biblical law scholar. He was a fellow at All Souls College at Oxford and emeritus professor of law at both Oxford and University of California, Berkeley. Throughout his life and continuing today, scholars have hailed his important research on Roman law, biblical law, Hebraic Law, and ethics. Now, for the first time, the first ten of his twenty Gifford Lectures, delivered in 1962 and 1964, are available to the public in The Deed and the Doer in the Bible. The overall theme of the lectures is law and wisdom in the Bible. Daube's wide-ranging deliberations reveal how complicated and profound the biblical text is. His lectures are aimed at professionals in the fields of biblical criticism, biblical history, ethics, and the history of law with respect to its roots in Old Testament traditions.

David Daube (1909–99) was known for his unique and sophisticated research on Roman law, biblical law, Jewish Law, and medical ethics. In Law and Wisdom in the Bible, the first published collection of his 1964 Gifford Lectures, Daube derives from his complex understanding of biblical texts both ancient and contemporary notions about wisdom, justice, and education.