Category: History - Religious
WHETHER OR NOT THE RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE PRESCRIBED IN THE MISHNA WERE IN EXISTENCE AND ACTIVELY IN FORCE IN JUDEA AT THE TIME OF THE TRIAL OF JESUS 186
Did the Great Sanhedrin exist at the time of Christ? If it existed, was it still a legally constituted court, having jurisdiction to try capital offenses? Did it have jurisdicti...
5. CHAPTER IThe Gospels of the New Testament form the record of fact in the trial of Jesus. There is not a line of authentic history in the literature of the world, sacred or profane, deali...
4. PART IIIWHETHER OR NOT THE RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE PRESCRIBED IN THE MISHNA WERE IN EXISTENCE AND ACTIVELY IN FORCE IN JUDEA AT THE TIME OF THE TRIAL OF JESUS 186
10. xxiii. 1: "Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand withthe wicked to be an unrighteous witness." Under the stigma of the immoral and irreligious came dicers, usurers, pigeon fliers, and those who traded in the fruits of the Sabbatic...
8. CHAPTER IIIThe Great Sanhedrin, or Grand Council, was the high court of justice and the supreme tribunal of the Jews. It sat at Jerusalem. It numbered seventy-one members. Its powers were...
11. CHAPTER VThe administration of Hebrew criminal law was marked by lofty conception of right and wrong, and was pervaded by a noble sentiment of justice and humanity. From the framing of t...
6. CHAPTER IThe Pentateuch and the Talmud form the double basis of Hebrew jurisprudence. "The wisdom of the lawgiver," says Bacon, "consists not only in a platform of justice, but in the ap...
7. CHAPTER II(1) With one's own daughter. (2) With one's own son's daughter. (3) With one's own daughter's daughter. (4) With one's own stepdaughter. (5) With one's own stepson's daughter. (...
9. CHAPTER IV_Competency.--The qualifications of a competent witness, under Hebrew law, were almost identical with those of a qualified judge, mentioned in a previous chapter. Self-evidently...
1. VOLUME I3. PART II2. PART I