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Shopping For Religion: The Change In Everyday Religious Practice And Its Importance To The Law, Rebecca Redwood French Jan 2003

Shopping For Religion: The Change In Everyday Religious Practice And Its Importance To The Law, Rebecca Redwood French

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Le 'Noble Mensonge' De L'Amérique Après Le 11 Septembre [Written As Constituting A Nation, Making A Home, After September 11th], David A. Westbrook Jan 2003

Le 'Noble Mensonge' De L'Amérique Après Le 11 Septembre [Written As Constituting A Nation, Making A Home, After September 11th], David A. Westbrook

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Lawyers And Biblical Prophets, Thomas L. Shaffer Jan 2003

Lawyers And Biblical Prophets, Thomas L. Shaffer

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This is part of a broader exploration of the suggestion that the biblical prophets-Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos, Nathan, and the others-are sources of ethical reflection and moral example for modern American lawyers. The suggestion appears to be unusual; I am not sure why.

The Prophets were, more than anything else, lawyers-as their successors, the Rabbis of the Talmud, were. They were neither teachers nor bureaucrats, not elected officials or priests or preachers. And the comparison is not an ancient curiosity:

Much of what admirable lawyer-heroes have done in modern America has been prophetic in the biblical sense-that is, what they …