BIBLICAL APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF JUSTICE BY DAN VAN NESS AND

Israeli law has derived wisdom from the cultures, where Jacob’s descendants lived. Torah’s casuistic provisions derive from Canaan’s archaic law. There the laws of home country were the basis of administration of a case (Weiser, 1994). At the same time the nation was formed not in Palestine, but a lot of earlier. Yet in Egypt ruled unquestionably Egyptian law, it is axiomatic, that Joseph’s relatives by marriage had patriarchal rules that they tried to follow. Egyptian captivity and desert wandering united Joseph’s clans, common monotheistic faith integrated them into a nation, with it by mixed marriages, conquests and union treaty joined individuals and tribes. One God is the generator of history and the nations born and faded in it. He is the one, who gives the presents Israeli as model nation to the whole world to learn. Naturally it is He, who gives the model nation the Law modelling its life, around and concerning what hook to or loose its strength strange, additionally learned or rejectible norms. Faith integrates and law constitutes Israel. The God made the holy contract with Israeli people and gave them the Law after saving them from slavery. It was not discussed on popular vote; it was validated from top to bottom on mutual knowledge of the faithlessness and dishonourableness of the people as a partner (