Law and the Bible
Law and the Bible

Author: Robert F. Cochran

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0830825738

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The Bible is full of law. Yet too often, Christians either pick and choose verses out of context to bolster existing positions, or assume that any moral judgment the Bible expresses should become the law of the land. Law and the Bible asks: What inspired light does the Bible shed on Christians’ participation in contemporary legal systems? It concludes that more often than not the Bible overturns our faulty assumptions and skewed commitments rather than bolsters them. In the process, God gives us greater insight into what all of life, including law, should be. Each chapter is cowritten by a legal professional and a theologian, and focuses on a key aspect of the biblical witness concerning civil or positive law--that is, law that human societies create to order their communities, implementing and enforcing it through civil government. A foundational text for legal professionals, law and prelaw students, and all who want to think in a faithfully Christian way about law and their relationship to it.

The Bible in American Law and Politics
The Bible in American Law and Politics

Author: John R. Vile

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-09-19

Total Pages: 679

ISBN-13: 1538141671

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While scholars increasingly recognize the importance of religion throughout American history, The Bible in American Law and Politics is the first reference book to focus on the key role that the Bible has played in American public life. In considering revolting from Great Britain, Americans contemplated whether this was consistent with scripture. Americans subsequently sought to apply Biblical passages to such issues as slavery, women’s rights, national alcoholic prohibition, issues of war and peace, and the like. American presidents continue to take their oath on the Bible. Some of America’s greatest speeches, for example, Lincoln’s Second Inaugural and William Jennings Bryan’s Cross of Gold speech, have been grounded on Biblical texts or analogies. Today, Americans continue to cite the Bible for positions as diverse as LGBTQ rights, abortion, immigration, welfare, health care, and other contemporary issues. By providing essays on key speeches, books, documents, legal decisions, and other writings throughout American history that have sought to buttress arguments through citations to Scriptures or to Biblical figures, John Vile provides an indispensable guide for scholars and students in religion, American history, law, and political science to understand how Americans throughout its history have interpreted and applied the Bible to legal and political issues.

The Holy Bible and the Law
The Holy Bible and the Law

Author: Jacob W. Ehrlich

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1584771925

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A handy reference to biblical quotations relating to subjects of legal interest. Organized by subject with introductory notes to most sections, the book covers such topics as adoption, bribery, contracts, crime and punishment, divorce, drinking, government and crimes against the State, homicide, husband and wife, military law, master and servant, perjury, prostitution, oaths, wills and more.

The Law School Bible
The Law School Bible

Author: Peter J. Loughlin

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780971028104

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People abandon their dreams of becoming lawyers because of work schedules, family commitments, money, and many other reasons. "The Law School Bible" is for anyone who aspires to become a lawyer, but cannot pursue a traditional law school education. (Legal Reference/Law Profession)

Thinking on Scripture: A Collection of Theological Essays - Volume 2
Thinking on Scripture: A Collection of Theological Essays - Volume 2

Author: Steven R. Cook

Publisher: Steven R. Cook

Published: 2020-12-19

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13:

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In this second volume, Dr. Cook provides a series of articles that are part of his morning meditations on Scripture. Meditation, in the biblical sense, is an intentional filling of the mind with divine viewpoint; specifically, God’s Word. The purpose is to saturate our thinking with Scripture so that it will permeate all aspects of our reasoning and guide us into God’s will. These articles touch on subjects such as soteriology, grace, worship, righteous living, and character studies of people such as Saul and David. The overall intent of the book is to inform and inspire believers to live righteously before God.

Biblical Law
Biblical Law

Author: H. B. Clark

Publisher:

Published: 2011-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781616192426

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Biblical Law: Being a Text of the Statutes, Ordinances, and Judgments Established in the Holy Bible with Many Allusions to Secular Laws: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Documented to the Scriptures, Judicial Decisions, and Legal Literature Clark offers a systematic presentation of the commandments, precedents and customs found in the King James Version of the Bible. Following the organization of a legal text, the work is divided into sections on General Principles, Political Law, Civil Law, Economics and Welfare, General Laws, Penal Law, Crimes and Punishment, and Procedure and Administration of Law. " 'A PANDECT of Profitable Laws, against Rebellious Spirits!' Thus the Scriptures are described in the preface to the King James Version. Indeed, the Holy Bible is not only a repository of early laws; it is the code at once most ancient and best known by those who have been observers of the Christian Creed; and to it our later laws and governmental processes are, in essential and enduring parts, immediately indebted. (. . .) [T]he author, in order that Biblical law may be of easy access-has extracted the many commandments, precedents and customs which are to be found throughout the sacred writings and has sought to present them logically and systematically, in the style of a modern law book." -- Preface, v

Sovereign Authority and the Elaboration of Law in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
Sovereign Authority and the Elaboration of Law in the Bible and the Ancient Near East

Author: Dylan R. Johnson

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 3161595092

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Five Pentateuchal texts (Lev 24:10-23; Num 9:6-14; Num 15:32-36; Num 27:1-11; Num 36:1-12) offer unique visions of the elaboration of law in Israel's formative past. In response to individual legal cases, Yahweh enacts impersonal and general statutes reminiscent of biblical and ancient Near Eastern law collections. From the perspective of comparative law, Dylan R. Johnson proposes a new understanding of these texts as biblical rescripts: a legislative technique that enabled sovereigns to enact general laws on the basis of particular legal cases. Typological parallels drawn from cuneiform and Roman law illustrate the complex ideology informing the content and the form of these five cases. The author explores how latent conceptions of law, justice, and legislative sovereignty shaped these texts, and how the Priestly vision of law interacted with and transformed earlier legal traditions.

God, Justice, and Society
God, Justice, and Society

Author: Jonathan Burnside

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 0199759219

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What is the real meaning of 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth'? Where did the idea for the 'Jubilee 2000' and 'Drop the Debt' campaigns come from? Here, Burnside looks at aspects of law and legality in the Bible, from the patriarchal narratives in the Hebrew Bible through to the trials of Jesus in the New Testament.

The End of the Law
The End of the Law

Author: Jason C. Meyer

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 080544842X

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A study of Paul's theology in the Bible, focusing on his view of the old covenant God made with Israel and the new covenant Jesus announced at the Last Supper.