EXOD624 Jewish teachings on self-defense are based on a ruling in [this verse]. … The Bible scholar Moshe Greenberg notes that "both [ancient] Assyrian and Babylonian law know of offenses against property that entailed the death sentence. In Babylonia, breaking and entering… and theft from another's possession are punished by death. Assyrian law punishes theft committed by a wife against her husband with death. In view of this, the leniency biblical law in dealing with all types of property offenses is astonishing. No property offense is punishable with death" (Moshe Greenberg," Some Postulates of Biblical Criminal Law," in Judah Goldin, editor, The Jewish Expression, page 27).