Das Gesetz; Kommentar I; Ironie und Sittlichkeit Thomas Manns Moses-Erzählung "Das Gesetz"; Kommentar II; Recht und Staat -- Mythos, Erzählung, Realität Thomas Manns Novelle "Das Gesetz."
Thomas Mann's novella, "The Law" portrays the events of the Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt in a similar fashion as Mann told the story of Joseph in his Joseph novels - with gentle rationality and delicate irony. The commentaries by Volker Ladenthin and Thomas Vormbaum take up specific aspects of the story from a literary and judicial perspective