The Law Before the Law

Informationen zum Autor By Steven Wilf Klappentext This book is a study in the law that exists before the beginnings of law. It looks at one foundational moment, the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Drawing upon nearly two thousand years of Hebrew commentary, often scattered and fragmentary, The Law Before the Law seeks to reconstruct imaginative understandings of how Hebrew commentators visualized what existed prior to receiving the commandments. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Chapter One: Why Legal Prehistory Matters Chapter 3 Chapter Two: In the Beginning Was the Nomos Chapter 4 Chapter Three: Did the Patriarchs Know the Torah? Chapter 5 Chapter Four: The Giving of the Commandments at Marah Chapter 6 Chapter Five: Law as Collective Memory Chapter 7 Conclusion: The Once and Future Law

Product details

• Authors: Steven Wilf, Steven Robert Wilf
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2008
• EAN: 9780739123133
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2313-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Graven Images (Hardcover); Graven Images
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; RELIGION / Judaism / General, LAW / General, RELIGION / Judaism / History, RELIGION / Judaism / Theology, Judaism, Jurisprudence & general issues