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The Tables of the Law (German: Das Gesetz) is a 1944 novella by German writer Thomas Mann. It is a dramatic retelling of the Biblical story of Moses contained in the Book of Exodus, although some of the laws which Moses proscribes for his followers are taken from Leviticus.
- Thomas Mann
- 120 pp
- 1944
- 1944
TABLES OF THE LAW - JewishEncyclopedia.com. TABLES OF THE LAW: By: Emil G. Hirsch, Wilhelm Bacher. Table of Contents. —Biblical Data: Why Two Tables. —In Rabbinical Literature: Moses' Block of Sapphire. The Breaking of the Tables. In the Cabala. —Critical View: Tablets containing the Ten Commandments. —Biblical Data:
- Creation of The Twelve Tables
- The Laws of The Twelve Tables
- Amendments
- Legacy
According to tradition, in 451 BCE a committee, the decemviri, were, following public pressure, given the task of composing a law code which would better represent the interests of the ordinary people (plebeians) and reduce the undue influence on Roman law of the aristocrats (patricians) and priests (pontifices). These latter had exclusively sat on...
The exact reason why the Tables were drawn up may have been lost in the mists of time but once written their content was consistently referenced in later Roman written works. Unfortunately, the tablets themselves have not survived, destroyed, according to tradition, when Rome was sacked by the Gauls in 390 BCE. From some remaining fragments and tho...
Problems of practical application were soon apparent when some patricians refused to submit to the statutes of the Twelve Tables. The ordinary people were also now startled to see, for the first time, many of the rules which had already been in place but not made quite so transparent until now. These factors led to an uprising by the plebeians in 4...
Although some scholars insist the Twelve Tables were not quite the 'all equal before the law' that tradition has claimed and that they were not enough alone to be defined as a complete law code, they, nevertheless, indisputably set the foundation for what would become a system of fully codified law in the Roman world. The decemviri must also be cre...
- Mark Cartwright
Tablas De La Ley - Diez Mandamientos. Y Habló Dios todas estas palabras, diciendo : (I) «Yo soy JEHOVA tu Dios, que te saqué de la tierra de Egipto, de casa de siervos. (II) No tendrás dioses ajenos delante de mí. No te harás imagen, ni ninguna semejanza de cosa que esté arriba en el cielo, ni abajo en la tierra, ni en las aguas debajo ...
1 de may. de 2010 · The Tables of the Law is a historical title following Moses as he is tasked by God to present the ten commandments, providing a human and much different insight on the role of Moses as the...
- Thomas Mann
- The Tables of the Law
- Michael Wood
- Marion Faber, Stephen Lehmann
Complete summary of William Butler Yeats' The Tables of the Law. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Tables of the Law.
31 de ago. de 2013 · The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tables of the Law; & The Adoration of the Magi, by William Butler Yeats This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
