Jr John Witte

The Sins of the Fathers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Illegitimate children suffered centuries of discrimination under Western law. This analysis reveals how misinterpretations of biblical texts supported this injustice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780521839419
• ISBN-10: 0521839416
• Artikelnr.: 26525846

Autorenporträt

John Witte, Jr is Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. His most recent publications include Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation (2002), The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (2007), and Christianity and Law: An Introduction (2008) co-edited by Frank S. Alexander.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: the paradoxes of illegitimacy
1. Suffer the innocent children: illegitimacy in early Judaism and Christianity
2. Woe to bastards: the classic Roman law of illegitimacy and legitimation
3. The wages of sin: sex, marriage and illegitimacy in medieval canon law
4. Heir of no one: the English common law of illegitimacy and its reforms
5. The rights of all children: the new law of non-marital childhood in America and beyond
Concluding reflections
Bibliography
Biblical index
Index.