The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Morality and Law Poetry_Gift_Guide From the sophisticated

From the sophisticated

This book shows why critics have called Weil "a great soul who might have become a saint" and "the outsider as saint

who arrives at young womanhood just in time to see the Civil War forever change her way of life

hugely romantic and properly laugh-out-loud funny”—SOPHIA MONEY-COUTTS

The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Morality and Law Poetry_Gift_Guide From the sophisticatedFrom the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer comes a "dazzling and stimulating" exploration of how the creation of the ten commandments provides the origins to today's law (Library Journal). Alan Dershowitz is one of America's most famous litigation experts. In the Genesis of Justice he examines the Genesis narratives to bring to the reader an insight into the creation of the ten commandments and much of what is now law.