The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice that Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Morality and Law
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0446524794 / Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, March 2000
Exploring the influence of the biblical Book of Genesis on the evolution of modern concepts of justice, the author examines ten key narratives that gave rise to the Ten Commandments and helped shape our modern legal system
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From the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer comes a "dazzling and stimulating" exploration of how the creation of the ten commandments provides the origins to today's law (Library Journal). Alan Dershowitz is one of America's most famous litigation experts. In the Genesis of Justice he examines the Genesis narratives to bring to the reader an insight into the creation of the ten commandments and much of what is now law.
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