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 Oxford
as well as emeritus professor of law at 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.

Daube produced dozens of books and published more than 150 articles in scholarly
journals. Now, for the first time, his twenty Gifford Lectures, delivered in
1962 and 1964, will be available to the public. His first ten Gifford Lectures
have been collected in The Deed and the Doer in the Bible: David Daube's Gifford
Lectures, Volume 1.

The overall theme of Daube's Gifford Lectures is law and wisdom in the Bible.
His wide-ranging deliberations reveal how complicated and profound the biblical…
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