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The Genesis of Justice:
Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice that Led to the 10 Commandments and Modern Law
by Alan M. Dershowitz

Celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz makes his case for the origins of Judeo-Christian law by analyzing some of the wildest, juiciest and most lawless sections of the Bible. These are, of course, in Genesis. God Himself is shown to be one of the least law-abiding, most unjust characters in Genesis. He threatens, then backs down and lets killers go free. He overreacts and floods the world. He overreacts again and destroys a city. Dershowitz shows us how the terribly flawed behavior of God and other stars of Genesis (Abraham who almost murders his own son, Jacob who deceives his father and brother, Lot's daughters who have sex with their own father, Tamar who becomes a prostitute and the progenitor of David) led to the 10 Commandments and eventually, for better and for worse, the Judeo-Christian sense of justice. Great reading for irreverent, sex-obsessed Bible junkies like me, or tube-heads who can't get enough of Dershowitz on MSNBC. --DrSuzyB

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