Torah

Overview from Jewish Encyclopedia

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14446-torah

Documentary Hypothesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis

Intercultural Contexts

James Roger Black Dissertation (2002)

See especially the "cosmopolitan" thesis of Section One (Part 4)

https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/jrblack/web/diss.html

"Brandeis School" (S.E. Holtz 2010)

Rewriting the Torah by Jeffrey Stackert

http://books.google.com/books?id=XAsgfNCjWWwC

Inventing God's Law by David P. Wright

focusing on "Covenant Code" (Exodus 20:23 - 23:19)

http://books.google.com/books?id=YiLZWVcRebgC