Gary North
Volumes 3 and 4 of Exodus cover mainly three chapters, Exodus 21-23. I call these the case laws. I titled these Tools of Dominion in 1990, when they were first published.
The Ten Commandments are in Exodus 20. The case laws are applications of the legal principles of the Ten Commandments. Here, we learn how to combine general laws with specific types of legal cases.
It took me from 1986 to 1990 to write these two volumes, plus the accompanying appendixes. Most of the appendixes are in volumes 5 and 6. Four were stand-alone books: Dominion and Common Grace (1987), Is the World Running Down? (1988), Political Polytheism (1989), and Millennialism and Social Theory (1990).
The case laws cover many topics: slavery, kidnapping, lost domesticated animals, legal liability (fire), assault and battery, restitution, negligence, judicial impartiality, judicial predictability, bribery, economic growth, citizenship, the limits on personal sacrifice, environmental pollution, oppression, and the most important of all biblical judicial principles: victim’s rights.
The two volumes on the case laws were originally titled Tools of Dominion.
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