While scholars increasingly recognize the importance of religion throughout American history, The Bible in American Law and Politics is the first reference book

One of six titles in The Bible in American Culture series published to celebrate the Society of Biblical Literature's centennial, this volume explores the inter

According to the conventional wisdom American constitutional democracy stemmed from Athenian democracy, Roman Law, English legal practices, and the Magna Carta.

The Bible is full of law. Yet too often, Christians either pick and choose verses out of context to bolster existing positions, or assume that any moral judgmen