Book Description
Volume 1 in a series of translations of Plutarch's Parallel Live from the translators of Marcus Aurelius "Meditations."
Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9780999146682
Volume 1 in a series of translations of Plutarch's Parallel Live from the translators of Marcus Aurelius "Meditations."
Author : Ursula Westwood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004681930
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.
Author : John Lewis
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : History
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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.
Author : Herman Wouk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451699409
"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.
Author : Jogendra Chunder Ghose
Publisher :
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Hindu law
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Law
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Author : Rémi Brague
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022680805X
The law of God: these words conjure an image of Moses breaking the tablets at Mount Sinai, but the history of the alliance between law and divinity is so much longer, and its scope so much broader, than a single Judeo-Christian scene can possibly suggest. In his stunningly ambitious new history, Rémi Brague goes back three thousand years to trace this idea of divine law in the West from prehistoric religions to modern times—giving new depth to today’s discussions about the role of God in worldly affairs. Brague masterfully describes the differing conceptions of divine law in Judaic, Islamic, and Christian traditions and illuminates these ideas with a wide range of philosophical, political, and religious sources. In conclusion, he addresses the recent break in the alliance between law and divinity—when modern societies, far from connecting the two, started to think of law simply as the rule human community gives itself. Exploring what this disconnection means for the contemporary world, Brague—powerfully expanding on the project he began with The Wisdom of the World—re-engages readers in a millennia-long intellectual tradition, ultimately arriving at a better comprehension of our own modernity. “Brague’s sense of intellectual adventure is what makes his work genuinely exciting to read. The Law of God offers a challenge that anyone concerned with today’s religious struggles ought to take up.”—Adam Kirsch, New YorkSun “Scholars and students of contemporary world events, to the extent that these may be viewed as a clash of rival fundamentalisms, will have much to gain from Brague’s study. Ideally, in that case, the book seems to be both an obvious primer and launching pad for further scholarship.”—Times Higher Education Supplement
Author : Walther Zimmerli
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 160899726X
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Publisher :
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 1871
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Author : John Erskine of Carnock
Publisher :
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 1871
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