Law Before The Law
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This book is a study in the law that exists before the beginnings of law. It looks at one foundational moment, the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Drawing upon nearly two thousand years of Hebrew commentary, often scattered and fragmentary, The Law Before the Law seeks to reconstruct imaginative understandings of how Hebrew commentators visualized what existed prior to receiving the commandments.
Preface ixAcknowledgments xvAbbreviations xviiWhy Legal Prehistory Matters 1In the Beginning was the Nomos 39Did the Patriarchs Know the Torah? 83The Giving of the Commandments at Marah 135Law as Collective Memory 175Conclusion: The Once and Future Law 211Bibliography 217Index 229About the Author 237
