Reviews

Harold J. Berman
"This is an important work -- one that traces successive understandings of the Ten Commandments from early times to our own time and thus challenges us to make the Ten Commandments the basis of our own twenty-first-century morality. " Brian Tierney
"This wise and far-ranging book leads us to a deeper understanding of the Ten Commandments by explaining how their teachings were reflected in the works of more than thirty authors from Philo Judeus to Nietzsche. Paul Grimley Kuntz shows how the Commandments are not just the tabus of an ancient Near Eastern people but permanent principles of orderly life applicable in all ages. Mosaic Paradigms will be a valuable resource for students of religious history and for all who are interested in the moral foundations of Western civilization. "