Dueling

Lynching and dueling represent the unwillingness of the individual to surrender private redress to the state. 70:10.16

Early wars were fought between tribes as a whole, but in later times, when two individuals in different tribes had a dispute, instead of both tribes fighting, the two disputants engaged in a duel. 70:1.19

Dueling is a modern survival of the trial by ordeal. 70:10.7

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Champions fight 70:1.19 — 1 Sam 17:1-51.