This book is not about the rules or concepts of Roman law, says Alan Watson, but about the values and approaches, explicit and implicit, of those who made the law. The scope of Watson's concerns encompasses the period from the Twelve Tables, around 451 B.C., to the end of the so-called classical period, around A.D. 235. As he discusses the issues and problems that faced the Roman legal intelligentsia, Watson also holds up Roman law as a clear, although admittedly extreme, example of law's enormous impact on society in light of society's limited input into law.
Roman private law has been...
This book is not about the rules or concepts of Roman law, says Alan Watson, but about the values and approaches, explicit and implicit, of those w...
"Si estamos para vivir en un mundo sano, necesitamos reconectarnos con los bosques desde una base espiritual. El Llamado de los Arboles de Dorothy Maclean nos ayuda a ver, escuchar y sentir los bosques a traves de los arboles y a reconocerlos a ellos como nuestros amigos del alma. Lee los mensajes. Ve al bosque. Quedate alli. Permanece tranquilo y escucha su llamado." David Brynn, Fundador y Director Ejecutivo de Vermont Family Forests
"Si estamos para vivir en un mundo sano, necesitamos reconectarnos con los bosques desde una base espiritual. El Llamado de los Arboles de Dorothy Mac...
In "Ancient Law and Modern Understanding" Alan Watson proposes that ancient law is relevant and important for understanding history, theology, sociology, and literature. "Law, though technical," he writes, "is not remote from scholarship on other matters, and law is a central element in society."
From Homeric Greece to present-day Armenia, Watson examines law's influence. Without a sensitivity to technical legal language, scholars of literature or history miss much: the use of puns in Plautus, Sulla's claim that Julius Caesar was descended from a slave, the relationship between the...
In "Ancient Law and Modern Understanding" Alan Watson proposes that ancient law is relevant and important for understanding history, theology, soci...
Written by one of our most respected legal historians, this book analyzes the interaction of law and religion in ancient Rome. As such, it offers a major new perspective on the nature and development of Roman law in the early republic and empire before Christianity was recognized and encouraged by Constantine.
At the heart of the book is the apparent paradox that Roman private law is remarkably secular even though, until the late second century B.C., the Romans were regarded (and regarded themselves) as the most religious people in the world. Adding to the paradox was the fact that the...
Written by one of our most respected legal historians, this book analyzes the interaction of law and religion in ancient Rome. As such, it offers a...
In "Jesus and the Jews," Alan Watson reveals and substantiates a central yet previously unrecognized source for the composition of the Gospel of John. Strikingly antithetical to John s basic message, this source originated from an anti-Christian tradition promulgated by the Pharisees, the powerful and dogmatic teachers of Jewish law. The aims of this Pharisaic tradition, argues Watson, included discrediting Jesus as the Messiah, minimizing his historical importance, and justifying the Jewish authorities role in his death. "Jesus and the Jews" joins three other works by Watson "The Trial of...
In "Jesus and the Jews," Alan Watson reveals and substantiates a central yet previously unrecognized source for the composition of the Gospel of John....
In "The Trial of Jesus" Alan Watson argues that by virtue of Jesus s conviction and crucifixion at the hands of the Romans he failed to fulfill the prophecy of his messiahship in the manner he had intended. Jesus s destiny, as he saw it, was to be condemned by the Jewish authorities to death by stoning. This is just one of the provoking insights in Watson s fresh interpretation of the arrest, trial, and conviction of Jesus. Drawing on the four Gospels, writings from the period, and Jewish and Roman laws and customs, Watson adds substantially to what we know about Jesus himself, his...
In "The Trial of Jesus" Alan Watson argues that by virtue of Jesus s conviction and crucifixion at the hands of the Romans he failed to fulfill the pr...
In "Jesus and the Law, Alan Watson measures the success of Jesus s ministry by explaining his attitude toward, and knowledge of, certain laws and legal customs. Watson argues that Jesus engendered harsh responses from his fellow Jews by his apparently contemptuous or insensitive behavior that stemmed from a lack of knowledge or concern about legal and rabbinic strictures. Informed by Watson s knowledge of Jewish and Roman law and ancient history, and his skillful relation of Mishnaic and Talmudic materials to the time of Jesus, this book is more than a vivid retelling of the events of the...
In "Jesus and the Law, Alan Watson measures the success of Jesus s ministry by explaining his attitude toward, and knowledge of, certain laws and lega...
Alan Watson argues that a close examination of the Gospels in their historic and religious context reveals St. Mark s text as the most plausible account of how Jesus saw himself and how he was perceived by his contemporaries. In the gospel of Mark, Watson says that we see a Jesus who felt he was beyond the law a man who was basically apolitical, hostile to dogma, and deliberately incomprehensible to his followers and enemies. Watson concludes that Jesus was essentially a cult leader a charismatic individual who demanded personal faith from his followers with little regard to consistency or...
Alan Watson argues that a close examination of the Gospels in their historic and religious context reveals St. Mark s text as the most plausible accou...
In this book, Alan Watson argues that the slave laws of North and South America--the written codes defining the relationship of masters to slaves--reflect not so much the culture and society of the various colonies but the legal traditions of England, Europe, and ancient Rome.
A pathbreaking study concerned as much with the nature of comparative law as the specific subject of the law of slavery, "Slave Law in the Americas" posits an essential distance in the Western legal tradition between the tenets of law and the values of the society they govern. Laws, Watson shows, often are made not...
In this book, Alan Watson argues that the slave laws of North and South America--the written codes defining the relationship of masters to slaves--...
"Joseph Story and the Comity of Errors" examines the decisions of Supreme Court justice and Harvard law professor Joseph Story (1779 1845). According to Alan Watson, Story erred in his interpretation of Dutchman Ulrich Huber s theory of comity the respect accorded by one sovereignty to another sovereignty s laws. Watson suggests that it is because of Story s misinterpretation that the Dred Scott case went before the United States Supreme Court, whose notorious ruling against Scott fed directly into heated sectional conflict that culminated in the Civil War. Demonstrating the odd twists and...
"Joseph Story and the Comity of Errors" examines the decisions of Supreme Court justice and Harvard law professor Joseph Story (1779 1845). According ...
