The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law

Author:   Christine Hayes (Yale University, Connecticut)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107036154


Pages:   438
Publication Date:   17 February 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Christine Hayes (Yale University, Connecticut)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9781107036154


ISBN 10:   1107036151
Pages:   438
Publication Date:   17 February 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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.

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Christine Hayes is the Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica at Yale University, Connecticut. A specialist in talmudic-midrashic studies, her published works include Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds (1997, winner of a Salo Baron Prize), Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities (2002, National Jewish Book Award finalist), The Emergence of Judaism (2010), Introduction to the Bible (2012), and What's Divine about Divine Law? (2015, winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship and the 2016 PROSE Award in Theology and Religious Studies from the American Publishers Association). She is an elected member of the American Academy of Jewish Research and Vice President for the Program of the Association for the Jewish Studies.

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