Drawing on biblical commentary from throughout the ages, the author shines a legal light on the stories from Genesis. What he reveals is how our shared tradition has formed our attitude toward modern day justice and why we are all engaged in a never-ending quest to separate right from wrong.
From 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.
