Judaism and Justice

This is what I'm talking about, a day or two after I wrote the Justice, Love and Unity article, I read this in a book catalog.

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

Violence, lust, deception, murder, incest, and vengeance: these are the subjects of the biggest bestseller of all time, the Book of Genesis. Here, based on his lectures at Harvard Law School, Alan Deershowitz takes the approach of looking at the oldest Bible stories from a modern legal perspective. Cain murders his brother and walks. God gets angry and millions die in a flood. Jacob deceives his father, robs his brother, and gets away with it. According to Dershowitz, these stories describe a people, and a God, struggling in a world b efore the invention of systematic rules - a primal place that predates our notions of fairness, honesty, and basic rights. Yet here in Genesis we can see these concepts and the need for a formal legal system clearly evolving, culminating in the Ten Commandments and a deep cultural belief in justice.