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The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Morality and Law Paperback - 2001
by Dershowitz, Alan M
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The renown lawyer meticulously examines ten biblical narratives as he guides readers from the Ten Commandments to the Supreme Court and illustrates how religion has shaped the concepts of contemporary justice.
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- Title The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Morality and Law
- Author Dershowitz, Alan M
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Grand Central Publishing, New York
- Date 2001-02-01
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 584UZG0001OC_ns
- ISBN 9780446676779 / 0446676772
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.05 x 6.08 x 0.72 in (22.99 x 15.44 x 1.83 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Religious Orientation: Islamic
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Theometrics: Secular
- Library of Congress subjects Justice - Biblical teaching
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99050220
- Dewey Decimal Code 222.110
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Summary
7 Cain murders his brother--and walks . . .7 God gets angry--and millions die in flood . . .7 Abraham commits attempted murder--and is praised . . .7 Jacob deceives his father, then robs his brother--and gets away with it . . .Who among us has not questioned the "justice" found in the Book of Genesis? Now Alan M. Dershowitz, one of our most brilliant legal minds and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah, casts new light on these ancient tales. What he finds is . . . THE GENESIS OF JUSTICE Violence, lust, deception, murder, incest, and vengeance: These are the subjects of the biggest--and perhaps the juiciest--bestseller of all time, the Book of Genesis. Its oft-told tales have inspired and challenged humankind for generations. But perhaps never before has anyone examined these stories so provocatively from a modern legal perspective. Based on Alan Dershowitz's class at Harvard Law School, The Genesis of Justice shows how the Good Book is also a remarkable law book. According to Dershowitz, these seminal stories describe a people--and a God--struggling in a world before the invention of systematic rules, a primal place th
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Would you give a young person a book whose heroes cheat, lie, steal, murder-and get away with it?
