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What makes one crime more serious than another, and why? This book investigates the problem of "seriousness of offence" in English law from the comparative perspective of biblical law. Burnside takes a semiotic approach to show how biblical conceptions of seriousness are synthesised and co...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Sheffield Academic Press
2003.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 363. European seminar in historical methodology ; 4. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35540680*spi |
| Sumario: | What makes one crime more serious than another, and why? This book investigates the problem of "seriousness of offence" in English law from the comparative perspective of biblical law. Burnside takes a semiotic approach to show how biblical conceptions of seriousness are synthesised and communicated through various descriptive and performative registers. Seven case studies show that biblical law discriminates between the seriousness of different offences and between the relative seriousness of the same offence when committed by different people or when performed in different ways. Re. |
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| Notas: | "A Continuum imprint." Articles from a meeting of the European Seminar on Methodology in Israel's History held in Utrecht, August, 2000. |
| Descripción Física: | xi, 354 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 324-346) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780567207821 |
