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Author: Christine HayesThe Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.
Author: Christine Elizabeth HayesThe Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law explores the Jewish conception of law as an essential component of the divine-human relationship from biblical to modern times, as well as resistance to this conceptualization.
Author: Christine HayesArguably, at least in its classical rabbinic formulation extending through the premodern period, Judaism was law – though in a vastly expanded sense that is not fully captured by western definitions and theories of law (natural, ...
Author: Charlotte Elisheva FonrobertThis volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity.
Author: Mauro Bussani13.1 The structure and sources of law in the Jewish tradition Judaism is fundamentally a religion of law, a law that governs every facet of the human condition. Jewish tradition maintains that the Torah - the first five books of the ...
Author: Professor of Biblical and Early Christian Studies Markus BockmuehlThe two parts of the book roughly correspond to the interdependent tasks of historical description and critical and theological reflection.
Author: Stephen B. ChapmanThis volume features an impressive array of leading biblical scholars and presents an illuminating and lively cross-section of this traditional field of study.
Author: Steven KepnesIn Part V, the book explores how the insights of analytic philosophy have been integrated with Jewish theology.
Author: Pamela BarmashIn The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law, edited by Christine Hayes, 76–127. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Hayes, Christine. “Legal Realism and the Fashioning of Sectarians in Jewish Antiquity.
Author: Jonathan E. BrockoppThe book is divided into three sections, the first charting his biography and the milieu into which he was born, the revelation of the Qur'ān, and his role within the early Muslim community.