Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Duke University Libraries https://archive.org/details/calledbystories01 ball Milner S. Ball CALLED BY STORIES Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law Duke University Press Durham & London © 2000 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Designed by C. H. Westmoreland Typeset in Monotype Fournier by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. For June once more And now for Connell, Katie, Hannah, and Marika too