Eye for an eye / William Ian Miller.
This book is a historical and philosophical meditation on paying back and buying back, that is, it is about retaliation and redemption. It takes the law of the talion - eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth - seriously. In its biblical formulation that law states the value of my eye in terms of your eye...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511511059 |
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