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The Law Before the Law
Steven Robert Wilf
出版
Lexington Books
, 2008
主題
History / Jewish
Law / General
Religion / Judaism / General
Religion / Judaism / Rituals & Practice
Religion / Judaism / History
Religion / Judaism / Sacred Writings
Religion / Judaism / Theology
ISBN
0739123130
9780739123133
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eMjXAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
"This book is a study in the law that exists before a founding moment of law-giving. More specifically, it looks at one foundational moment, the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, and examines how Hebrew commentators have envisioned what existed prior to receiving the commandments." "How do legal systems negotiate law enacted before their founding? The Law Before the Law examines nearly two millennia of responses by commentators to this problem. Pre-law, as it might be called, became the repository of an alternative legal tradition. Scattered, often fragmentary discussions of the law before the law were a commonplace in the Jewish legal tradition. Often involving conjecture and imaginative reconstructions of legal arguments, these discussions were a laboratory to work out the jurisprudential problems found in ordinary Jewish law. The law before the law was often envisioned as different from law after the founding moment and represented a legalism more oral, more customary, more discretionary, and, above all, more concerned with the psychological question of how a norm-bearing person is created."--BOOK JACKET.