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Jewish Law Annual Volume 15by The Institute of Jewish Law
Routledge 2004; US$ 190.00This collection adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1-14 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly material meeting the highest academic standards. more...
The halakhahby J. Neusner
BRILL 2002; US$ 141.00The essays gathered here systematically investigate the religious meaning of the normative law of Judaism, with reference to the concept of time and history that is embodied by the law. more...
The Jewish Law Annualby Neil Hecht
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 190.00Dealing with Jewish Law, this volume provides English-speaking readers with scholarly material. It contains seven articles that encompass legal, historic, textual, comparative and conceptual analysis, as well as a chronicle of cases of interest, and a survey of contemporary literature. It also covers suicide as an act of atonement in Jewish law. more...
The Jewish Law Annualby Berachyahu Lifshitz
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 160.00Volume Seventeen of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes one to sixteen of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly articles presenting jurisprudential, historical, textual and comparative analysis of issues in Jewish law. more...
Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical Lawby Bernard S. Jackson
Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 160.00This book explains and illustrates a variety of semiotic issues in the study of biblical law. Commencing with a review of relevant literature in linguistics, philosophy, semiotics and psychology, it examines biblical law in terms of its users, its medium and its message. It criticizes our use of the notion of 'literal meaning', at the level of both words and sentences, preferring to see meaning constructed by the narrative images that the language evokes. These images may come from either social experience or cultural narratives. Speech performance is important, both in the negotiation of the law and the narratives of its communication. Non-linguistic semiotic phenomena, utilizing other senses and involving such notions as space and... more...
Property and the Family in Biblical Lawby Raymond Westbrook
Continuum International Publishing 1991; US$ 110.00Biblical property law was concerned less with the efficient use and transfer of commercial assets than with protecting the rights of the family to the sources of their economic survival. This important collection of essays explores the legal link between property and family in the Bible, whether through the general law of inheritance or through special institutions such as redemption, the levirate and the sabbatical and jubilee years. It brings together the author's existing contributions, previously published in disparate law journals, to which have been added several unpublished studies and a general introduction. more...
The Jewish Law Annual, 18aby Berachyahu Lifshitz
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 135.00Includes a list of articles on Jewish law, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly articles presenting jurisprudential, historical, textual and comparative analysis of issues in Jewish law. more...
Law and Truth in Biblical and Rabbinic Literatureby Chaya T. Halberstam
Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 29.70How can humans ever attain the knowledge required to administer and implement divine law and render perfect justice in this world? Contrary to the belief that religious law is infallible, Chaya T. Halberstam shows that early rabbinic jurisprudence is characterized by fundamental uncertainty. She argues that while the Hebrew Bible created a sense of confidence and transparency before the law, the rabbis complicated the paths to knowledge and undermined the stability of personal status and ownership, and notions of guilt or innocence. Examining the facts of legal judgments through midrashic discussions of the law and evidence, ... more...
Natural Law in Judaismby David Novak
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 27.00This book presents a theory of natural law, significant for the study of Judaism, philosophy and comparative ethics. more...
Legal Fictionsby Steven D Fraade
BRILL 2011; US$ 251.00Ancient Jewish writings combine interpretive narratives of Israels sacred history with legal prescriptions for a divinely ordered way of life. Two ancient Jewish societies have left us extensive textual corpora preserving interpenetrating legal and narrative interpretive teachings: the sectarian community of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the sage-disciple circles of the early Rabbis. This book comprises studies that explore specific aspects of the interplay of interpretative, narrative, and legal rhetoric with an eye to pedagogic function and social formation for each of these communities and for both of them in comparison. It addresses questions of how best to approach these writings for purposes of historical retrieval and reconstruction by recognizing... more...









