Publication (Boston University. Institute of Jewish Law) ; no. 22 An introduction to the history and sources of Jewish law
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Book
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ISBN 10
0198262620
ISBN 13
9780198262626
Category
War Crimes
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Publication Year
1996
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Volume
22
Pages
466
Subject
Jewish law ; Holocaust
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Abstract
Jewish Law has a long history stretching from the early period to the modern State of Israel, encompassing the Talmud, Geonic and later codifications, the Spanish Golden Age, medieval and modern responsa, and the Holocaust and modern reforms. This work is a unique single-volume introduction to the history of Jewish law, written by leading experts in the field. Organized chronologically to cover the main historical principles, each chapter offers a contextual approach to the main developments in Jewish law. Fifteen distinct periods are separately studied in this volume, each one by a leading specialist, and the emphasis throughout is on the development of the institutions and sources of law. Most chapters are written to a common plan, with treatment of the political background of the period and the nature of Jewish judicial autonomy, the character (literary and legal) of the sources, the legal practice of the period, its principal authorities, and examples of characteristic features of the substantive law.
Description
Biblical law / Raymond Westbrook -- Jewish law during the second Temple period / Daniela Piattelli and Bernard S. Jackson -- Samaritan Halakhah / Michael Corinaldi -- Jewish law and Hellenistic legal practice in thelight of Greek papyri from Egypt / Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski -- Jewish law during the Tannaitic period / Peretz Segal -- Jewish and Roman jurisdiction / Alfredo Mordechai Rabello -- The age of the Talmud / Berachyahu Lifshitz -- Halakhah and law in the period of the geonim / Gideon Libson -- Karaite Halakhah / Michael Corinaldi -- Jewish law in Spain and the Halakhic activity of its scholars before 1300 / Eliav Shochetman -- Ashkenazim to 1300 / Avraham Grossman -- Toward sunrise in the East 1300-1565 / Stephen M. Passamaneck -- Jewish law from the Shulḥan Arukh to the enlightenment / Edward Fram -- Modern responsa : 1800 to the present / David Novak -- Jewish law in the State of Israel / Daniel Sinclair -- Postscript. The judicial process and the nature of Jewish law / Hanina Ben-Menahem.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Item donated by Graham Price.
Note: This book is catalogued in the LASA collection by Institute (Institute of Jewish Law)
Item donated by Graham Price.
Note: This book is catalogued in the LASA collection by Institute (Institute of Jewish Law)
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