The Lawgivers

The Lawgivers
Title The Lawgivers PDF eBook
Author Plutarch
Publisher
Pages 153
Release 2019-10-08
Genre Greece
ISBN 9780999146682

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Volume 1 in a series of translations of Plutarch's Parallel Live from the translators of Marcus Aurelius "Meditations."

Early Greek Lawgivers

Early Greek Lawgivers
Title Early Greek Lawgivers PDF eBook
Author John Lewis
Publisher Bristol Classical Press
Pages 112
Release 2007-07-09
Genre History
ISBN

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Examines the men who brought laws to the early Greek city states, as an introduction both to the development of law and to the basic issues in early legal practice. This book is an introduction to the establishment of law in ancient Greece. It is written for late school and early university students.

Moses among the Greek Lawgivers

Moses among the Greek Lawgivers
Title Moses among the Greek Lawgivers PDF eBook
Author Ursula Westwood
Publisher BRILL
Pages 280
Release 2023-09-04
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004681930

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Josephus’ Antiquities introduces Moses as the Jewish lawgiver, adapting the biblical account for a new audience. But who was that audience, and what did they understand by the term lawgiver (νομοθέτης)? This book uses Plutarch’s Lives as a proxy for an imagined audience, providing a historically grounded but flexible model of a lawgiver, against which some of the otherwise invisible forces shaping Josephus’ choices are thrown into sharp relief. This method reveals patterns of appeal and challenge in Josephus’ intriguing and lively account of Moses’ legislative activities.

Early Greek Lawgivers

Early Greek Lawgivers
Title Early Greek Lawgivers PDF eBook
Author John Lewis
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 136
Release 2013-10-10
Genre History
ISBN 1472538692

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Designed for students and teachers of Ancient History or Classical Civilisation at school and in early university years, this series provides a valuable collection of guides to the history, art, literature, values and social institutions of the ancient world. "Early Greek Lawgivers" examines the men who brought laws to the early Greek city states, as an introduction both to the development of law and to the basic issues in early legal practice. The lawgiver was a man of special status, who could resolve disputes without violence, and who brought a sense of order to his community. Figures such as Minos of Crete, Lycurgus of Sparta and Solon of Athens resolved the chaos of civil strife by bringing comprehensive norms of ethical conduct to their fellows, and establishing those norms in the form of oral or written laws. Arbitration, justice, procedural versus substantive law, ethical versus legal norms, and the special character of written laws, form the background to the examination of the lawgivers themselves. Crete, under king Minos, became an example of the ideal community for later Greeks, such as Plato.The unwritten laws of Lycurgus established the foundations of the Spartan state, in contrast with the written laws of Solon in Athens. Other lawgivers illustrate particular issues in early law; for instance, Zaleucus on the divine source of laws; Philolaus on family law; Phaleas on communism of property; and Hippodamus on civic planning. This is an ideal first introduction to the establishment of law in ancient Greece. It is written for late school and early university students.

The Law Student's Helper

The Law Student's Helper
Title The Law Student's Helper PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 446
Release 1913
Genre Law
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The Lawgiver

The Lawgiver
Title The Lawgiver PDF eBook
Author Herman Wouk
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 256
Release 2012-11-13
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1451699409

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"A lighthearted and delightful tour de force" (The Washington Times). A romantic and suspenseful epistolary novel about a group of people trying to make a movie about Moses in the present day, The Lawgiver is a story that emerges from letters, memos, e-mails, journals, news articles, Skype transcripts, and text messages. At the center of The Lawgiver is Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director who has rejected her rabbinical father’s strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multibillionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including reunite with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished business. Two other key characters in the novel are Herman Wouk himself and his wife of more than sixty years, Betty Sarah, who, almost against their will, find themselves entangled in the movie. As Wouk and his characters contend with Moses and marriage, the force of tradition, rebellion and reunion, The Lawgiver reflects the wisdom of a lifetime. Inspired by the great nineteenth-century novelists, one of America’s most beloved twentieth-century authors has now written a remarkable twenty-first-century work of fiction.

Natural Law and Natural Rights

Natural Law and Natural Rights
Title Natural Law and Natural Rights PDF eBook
Author John Finnis
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 511
Release 2011-04-07
Genre LAW
ISBN 0199599130

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This book uses contemporary analytical tools to provide basic accounts of values and principles, community and 'common good', justice and human rights, authority, law, the varieties of obligation, unjust law, and even the question of divine authority.