The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law

Herausgeber: Hayes, Christine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the Jewish conception of law from biblical to modern times. It traces the political, social, intellectual, and cultural circumstances that spawned competing Jewish approaches to the nomian character of the tradition, and its relationship to secular legal systems, including that of the modern state of Israel.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Religion
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781107644946
• ISBN-10: 1107644941
• Artikelnr.: 47540819

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Can we even speak of 'Judaism and law'? Christine Hayes
1. Law in biblical Israel Chaya Halberstam
2. Law in Jewish society of the Second Temple period Seth Schwartz
3. Law in classical Rabbinic Judaism Christine Hayes
4. Approaches to secular law in biblical Israel and classical Judaism through the medieval period Beth Berkowitz
5. Law in medieval Judaism Zev Harvey
6. The transition to modernity and the invention of the Jewish religion Verena Kasper-Marienberg
7. Enlightenment conceptions of Judaism and law Eliyahu Stern
8. Antinomianism and its responses - eighteenth century Menachem Lorberbaum
9. Antinomianism and its responses - nineteenth century David Ellenson
10. New developments in modern Jewish thought Yonatan Brafman
11. Judaism, Jewish law in pre-state Palestine Amihai Radzyner
12. Judaism, Jewish law, and the Jewish State in Israel Arye Edrei
13. What does it mean for a state to be Jewish? Daphne Barak Erez
14. Fault lines Patricia Woods
Primary source index
General index.