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Roughly 100 pages in and nothing particularly controversial so far:

• Torah isn't modern/western statutory law, but is "instruction" more in keeping with wisdom literature
• Torah is aimed primarily at creating/maintaining order
• Holiness is a status conferred by the Lord as he claims/marks a people as his own
• Torah is a vehicle for Israel to enhance the Lord's reputation amongst the nations

Fisk's first hand account is a monument of prose to the evils of war.

A good first chapter on the meaning of κεφαλή, showing the problematic nature of pegging it as either "authority" or "source". Perriman stretches things a bit too far in trying to entirely rule out "authority" and this becomes increasingly apparent through the second chapter as he bends over backwards to avoid any connotations of headship that involve authority.