This is a print on demand publication. The author spent many years collecting the material which forms the basis for this volume which draws on his preliminary studies & adds much new material. When Finkelstein died in Nov. 1974, he left a draft of a comprehensive work on the subject of the goring ox & related topics. Contents: (Part I): Apperceptions & categorizations; The Mesopotamian & biblical laws of the goring ox: Some categorical considerations; The laws of the goring ox; The Mesopotamian laws & their contexts; The biblical rules; & Reflections; (Part II): The trial of animals: The intellectual background of the inquiry; The classical sources & the ethnographic evidence; Animal trials in medieval Europe; The deodands in early English law; & Animal trials in the U.S.