Governmental and Judicial Ethics in the Bible & Rabbinic Literature

The task of this examination is to trace that “long, slow striving for the victory of justice over force” as it is discerned in biblical and rabbinical literature. The path of the study leads through that particular portion of this literature which is concerned with governmental and judicial ethics. The goal of the inquiry is to so study and analyze the governmental and judicial literature of the Torah and the Talmud, utilizing supplemental writings that have a bearing on the subject, until a clear, critical, comprehensive presentation has been made of the governmental and judicial ethics found in the Hebrew Scriptures and the literature of postbiblical Judaism.