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“It is true that the American legal system derives much of its content from the Old Testament [also known as the Jewish Bible or Tanach]…
When we were growing up, my friends and I would take great pride in discovering the Jewish sources of American laws, such as: the privilege against self-incrimination, the requirement of two witnesses for certain types of crime, and the very idea that punishment must be proportionate to the crime committed.”
SOURCE:Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz (chapter 10, page 318) published in year 1991 by Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374
=================================== Was Daniel an Orthodox Jew?
Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz said:
ReplyDelete“It is true that the American legal system
derives much of its content from the Old Testament
[also known as the Jewish Bible or Tanach]…
When we were growing up, my friends and I would
take great pride in discovering the Jewish sources
of American laws, such as: the privilege against
self-incrimination, the requirement of two witnesses
for certain types of crime, and the very idea that
punishment must be proportionate to the crime committed.”
SOURCE: Chutzpah by Alan M. Dershowitz
(chapter 10, page 318) published in year 1991
by Little Brown & Co ISBN: 9780316181372 ISBN: 0316181374
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Was Daniel an Orthodox Jew?
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-daniel-were-alive-today.html