Berachyahu Lifshitz (ed.)

The Jewish Law Annual Volume 17

Herausgeber: Lifshitz, Berachyahu

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Volume 17 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1-16 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly articles presenting jurisprudential, historical, textual and comparative analysis of issues in Jewish law. The volume contains seven articles diverse in their scope and focus. Two articles are devoted to the halakhic thought of Rabbi A. I Kook; two treat classic legal questions: breach of a promise to marry, and the legal capacity of minors; two examine aspects of the judicial process, one exploring talmudic analyses of the biblical requirement that courts be established in every town, and the other, post-talmudic views on judicial authority in cases suspected of fraudulent claims. Another article addresses the fascinating question of the epistemic-pedagogic worldviews of the rival Tannaitic legal academics, the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai. The volume concludes with a section on Israeli legislation that adduces or is informed by Jewish law, and two reviews of a much-discussed recent book on a topic of considerable contemporary interest: the agunah problem.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge-Cavendish
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780415457231
• ISBN-10: 0415457238
• Artikelnr.: 23186330

Autorenporträt

Berachyahu Lifshitz is Professor of Comparative law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: 1. Neria Guttel
It is Indeed in Heaven: The Uniqueness of the Laws of the Temple in the Halakhic Doctrine of Rabbi A. I. Kook 2. David Henshke
The Number of Judges in Ancient Israel 3. Leib Moscovitz
"The Actions of a Minor are a Nullity"?Some Observations on the Legal Capacity of Minors in Rabbinic Lawm 4. Avinoam Rosenak
Prophecy and Halakha: Dialectic in the Meta-Halakhic Thought of Rabbi A.I. Kook 5. Haim Shapira
The Schools of Hillel and Shammai 6. Yuval Sinai
Judicial Authority in Fraudulent-Claim Cases (din merume) 7. Ronnie Warburg
Breach of a Promise to Marry Part 2: 8. Daniel B. Sinclair
Jewish Law in the State of Israel 8.1 The Constitutional Validity of the Sabbath Observance Law 8.2 Terminally Ill Patient Law
5766-2005 Part 3: Book reviews of Aviad Hacohen
The Tears of The Oppressed
An Examination of the Agunah Problem: Background and Halachic Sources
Bernard Jackson
Avishalom Westreich