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Called by Stories: Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law

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Description for Called by Stories: Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law Paperback. Examines sagas and tales from the Bible for the light they shed on the practice of law and on the meaning of a life lived in the legal profession. This book shows that the dilemmas and decisions that legal professionals confront are approached through an experience of narrative in which we come to know ourselves and our actions through stories. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HRCG; LAS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Distinguished legal scholar and Presbyterian minister Milner S. Ball examines great sagas and tales from the Bible for the light they shed on the practice of law and on the meaning of a life lived in the legal profession. Scholars and laypersons alike typically think of the law as a discipline dominated by reason and empirical methods. Ball shows that many of the dilemmas and decisions that legal professionals confront are more usefully approached through an experience of narrative in which we come to know ourselves and our actions through stories.
He begins with the story of Moses, who ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822325246
SKU
V9780822325246
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About Milner S. Ball
Milner S. Ball is both Harmon W. Caldwell Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Georgia School of Law and an ordained Presbyterian minister. He served as a judge on the International People’s Tribunal in Hawai’i in 1993 and was a founder of the annual Robert Cover Public Interest Law Retreat. A member of the Theological Anthropology Project at ... Read more

Reviews for Called by Stories: Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law
“Milner Ball has written a wonderful book, a sustained and fruitful meditation on the relation between fundamental biblical texts and possible meanings of the practice of law in modern America. He illuminates these crucial texts and the law itself in original, surprising, and highly persuasive ways. A truly impressive achievement.”—James Boyd White, author of Acts of Hope: The Creation of ... Read more

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