Recasting Mišpāṭîm: Legal Innovation in Leviticus 24:10—23

[...]the occurrence of this "catchall" list of generic rules at such a crucial point in the plot appears, at first sight, to water down the intensity of the pericope's narrative impact. Alternatively, because humans are created in God's image, inflicting injury on a human is tantamount to blasphemy. [...]according to these explanations, there is a conceptual identification of blasphemy with the lex talionis.\n If, in fact, CC was a well-established and revered text for the authors of H (and D), while D had yet to achieve such status for that community, then it could account for H's knowledge of Deuteronomic traditions, on the one hand, and its lack of exegetical attention to them (relative to CC), on the other.