TY - BOOK ID - 77939404 TI - A gateway between a distant god and a cruel world PY - 2012 SN - 1283854155 9004228748 9789004228740 9789004228733 900422873X 9781283854153 PB - Leiden Boston M. Nijhoff Pub. DB - UniCat KW - International law KW - Jewish scholars KW - Jews KW - Religion and law. KW - LAW / International KW - Law KW - Law and religion KW - Scholars, Jewish KW - Scholars KW - History. KW - Religious aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77939404 AB - Through a collective biographical methodology of four scholars (Hans Kelsen, Hans J. Morgenthau, Hersch Lauterpacht and Erich Kaufmann) this book investigates how Jewish identity and intellectual ties to Judaic civilisation in the German speaking and legal context influenced international law. By using biblical constitutive metaphors, it argues that Jewish German lawyers inherited, inter alia , a particular Jewish legal approach that ‘made’ their understanding of the law as a means to reach God. The overarching argument is that because of their Jewish heritage, Jewish scholars inherited the endorsement of earthly particularism for the sake of universalism and the other way around: for the sake of universalism, humanity’s differences need to be solved through the law. ER -