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Read Book Full -I, Iolo. Download Free PDF. Siaw Fung Chong. A short summary of this paper. When his memory is finally recovered two years later, the suspect had died while in prison. To his astonishment, his testimony complicated the matter and rekindled the long-buried suspicion among the family members because any of them could have been the real murderer. Christie cleverly dubbed the novel Ordeal By Innocence, as if innocence itself is an ordeal suffered by the innocent.
Behind the whodunit suspense in this story, the psychological tension among the characters portrayed the agony of the innocent ones who have to suffer unnecessary suspicion for a crime they did not commit. In ancient Mesopotamia, there is a strong inclination to blame women in cases of suspected adultery due to societal prejudice. However, it is acknowledged that some of the women might be guilty. Chong 2 and the Sotah Law in Numbers —were be deliberated to examine the concept of justice in the ANE for such cases.
Thus, when there is no concrete evidence, the case may not even warrant a trial. Raymond Westbrook, vol. E 9—provided for the use of oath and ordeal for cases of suspected or accused adultery against a woman. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, , MAL A17 provided that a man may set an agreement with another man who accused his wife of promiscuity to undergo the River Ordeal.
In MAL A24, if the husband of a woman accused another man of holding his wife but the accused insisted that he did not know, then they may set an agreement to go through a River Ordeal. Kyle McCarter explored several parts of the Hebrew scripture where the experience of the River Ordeal was said to have been implicitly or explicitly related, demonstrating similar although not totally the same cosmological framework of cultural beliefs of divine judgment through the River in Israel as in the general ancient Mesopotamia.
The Covenant Code dictates that disputes related to loss or ownership of property were to be brought before God for determination, and oaths of innocence before God by the safekeeper of the property may be invoked to settle the cases Exod In Deuteronomy , a priestly ritual of oath is presented for cases involving unaccounted murder. In the book of Numbers, however, there is an interesting passage describing the adjudication of a case involving a suspected adulteress—commonly referred to as the Sotah Law Num — where the pattern of an ordeal could be observed.
The Case of the Suspected Adulteress in Numbers In the Hebrew Bible, adultery was sternly prohibited Exod ; Deut , with capital punishment clearly spelt for offenders caught in the act Lev ; Deut Chong 5 suspected adulteress with no concrete evidence.
This is one notable passage in the Hebrew Bible with reference to ordeal reflected in the ANE customs. Over the years, critics have debated over the sources of this priestly passage. Some contradictions observed in the passage caused scholars to argue that it has probably been compiled from more than one source. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest.
Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Addressing both novels and short stories, the author illuminates the relationship between Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and the sensational Lindbergh Kidnapping Case of ; the connections between Christie's Mrs. Hawley Harvey Crippen--and eight more engrossing pairings of Christie's ingenious mystery puzzles with vintage true crime's most sensational events.
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