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ISBN: 0415420808
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Subtitle: BOSNIA TEN YEARS AFTER DAYTON
Author: MARC WELLER
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| Weight | 0.36 kg |
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| ISBN | 0415420808 |
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| Publication Date | 2008 |
| Pages | 102 |
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ISBN: 080524199X
Publisher: SCHOCKEN BOOKS
Subtitle: I CHING AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
Author: JACK M . BALKIN
ISBN: 0863560466
Publisher: SAQI BOOKS
Subtitle: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF LIFE AT THE OTTOMAN
Author: OTTAVIANO BON
ISBN: 0826450296
Publisher: CONTINUUM INTERNATIONAL
Subtitle:
Author: J. CRAIG BARKER
ISBN: 1855675463
Publisher: CASSELL
Subtitle: LAW, LABOUR AND LEGAL AID
Author: ALASTAIR HUDSON
ISBN: 0195105419
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Subtitle: PRISONS AND JAILS IN SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
Author: TIMOTHY J. FLANAGAN
A Harvard Law School faculty member since 1964, Dershowitz is noted for representing controversial and unpopular clients. In addition to tomes on the law and two novels, he wrote a 1987 book prescribing a remedy to save American Jews (The Vanishing American Jew). In this further demonstration of his versatility, he turns to 10 stories from Genesis to demonstrate how the Bible provides a basis for contemporary ideas about justice and injustice. The narratives deal with Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Abraham, Lot, Jacob, Dina, Tamar and Joseph. Dershowitz includes a translation of each story, recounts some theological commentaries and offers his own interpretations. He acknowledges the failings of the biblical characters, pointing out that they were guilty of deception, lust, crime, incest, revenge and murder. Their problematic actions highlighted the need for the laws that appear later in the Torah, starting with Exodus and the Ten Commandments. The book concludes with four chapters on “The Genesis of Justice in the Injustice of Genesis.” Dershowitz argues that the “bad actions” depicted in Genesis gave rise to the “common law of justice.” He addresses the question of theodicy, claiming that the belief in the hereafter solves the problem of why evil exists on earth. Finally, he asserts that the stories he has examined explain the need for judicial codes. The book makes an important contribution by clearly validating this claim, although Dershowitz disregards the stories’ significance as a basis for moral and ethical development.
ISBN: 0446524794
Publisher: ENCHANTED LION BOOKS
Subtitle: TEN STORIES OF BIBLICAL INJUSTICE THAT LED TO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND MODERN LAW
Author: ALAN M DERSHOWI
ISBN: 0421566701
Publisher: SWEET & MAXWELL
Subtitle: CRIMINAL PLEADING EVIDENCE&PRACTICE
Author: THOMAS RICHARDSON
