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This book describes the developing application of retributive principles in historical narratives before Christ. It assesses degrees of concern in the first history-writers of the world's most widespread monotheistic tradition to discern divine justice in human affairs.

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This is a magisterial, exhaustive and encyclopaedic treatment of a central and primal question in religious studies which towers above most other attempts to answer it... . Noel King

"""This is a magisterial, exhaustive and encyclopaedic treatment of a central and primal question in religious studies which towers above most other attempts to answer it... ."" Noel King"

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G.W. Trompf is Professor of the History of Ideas, University of Sydney. He was formerly Professor of History at the University of Papua New Guinea. He is founding editor of the monograph series Studies in World Religions; Gnostica; and Sydney Studies in Religion; and he is Chairman of the Association of The Journal of Religious History. His other books include The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought and Melanesian Religion.

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