Models in Legal History: The Case of Biblical Law

You don't have to be a postmodernist - and I am not - to take the view that the reading of ancient texts by legal historians cannot be "innocent." All meaning is constructed: texts do not "make sense;" we attribute sense to them. And the sense we attribute is in part a funct...

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Main Author: Jackson, Bernard S. 1944- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2002
In: Journal of law and religion
Year: 2002, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-30
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