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field of legal history
led to the complete
recon- struction of the
Mosaical Tablets of the
Law, including the graphical details
of their inscription, and the original
alphabet, in which it was
written, their geometry,
and their exact
weights and measures.3) This
important source of ancient law, which
I once called the Magna Charta of
antiquity, exerted an influence on
western culture that went far
beyond the proper sphere
of law.4)
Being deposited in the Holy of Holies
of the Solomonic temple in Jerusalem,
the Mosaical Tablets of
the Law were transformed
from a legal document into
an object of religious
worship, and it was
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philosophy see Bertrand Russell,
A History of Western Philosophy (New
York 1964), who was
a mathematician. In Comparative
Law the contrast
between Anglo-American and
Continental European legal philosophy
is obvious, and has its
analogy in Comparative Religion,
cf. Ernst Troeltsch,
Empirismus und Platonismus in
der Religionsphilosophie, Gesammelte
Werke (Tübingen
1922) vol. 2, pp.
364–85; and
Ewald (Ed) Metzler,
Die Emanzipation
vom Kulturinfantilismus bei
Comenius, Comte und Freud,
in Archives for Philosophy
of Law and
Social Philosophy (ARSP), vol.
58 (Wiesbaden 1972) pp. 97–122.
3) Cf. Ed Metzler, Discovering Mosaistics
(N. 1) pp. 22–25.
4) Ibid. p. 50 Note 47 and p.
192 Note 8. There is a time-lag of about
500 years between the
golden age of Israel under
King Solomon (ca. 950
B. C. E.) and the
golden age of Greece
under Pericles in Athens
(ca. 450 B. C. E.).
During this period a strong
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