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'''Les institutions de l'Ancien Testament''' (1958-1960) is a book by [[Roland de Vaux]].

==Abstract==
De Vaux exposes the Old Testament's institutions, like the clan, family, royalty, state, slavery, priesthood, others religious institutions etc., looking the historical elements of biblical text's. He confront this elements with archaeology, comparative anthropology, sociology, and literary comparative analysis, to deepen the historical elements of analyzed aspects. For De Vaux the Old Testament's texts were edited in the Persian period, and he support the documentary theory. Nevertheless for him, the text contains history, material, memoirs or simple reminiscences of the Israelite and monarchic period. Thus the critical analysis concern each sociological aspects of all Jewish people's biblical history until the Hellenistic and Roman period. - '''Matteo Silvestrini''' University of Lausanne 

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