Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred From Moses to Salman Rushdie

Leonard Levy traces the varied meanings of blasphemy throughout Western law. He argues that while past sanctions against the crime have inhibited all manner of cultural political scientific and literary expression we also pay a price for our extraordinary expansion of the scope of permissible speech. We have become he charges not only a free society but one that is numb to outrage. |Pfanz provides the definitive account of the fighting between the Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia at Cemetery Hill and Culps Hill--two of the most critical engagements fought at Gettysburg on July 2 and 3 1863. A defin