Cambridge companion to Judaism and law / edited by Christine Hayes.
Hayes, Christine Elizabeth, editor.
2017
KBM524 .C36 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Cambridge companion to Judaism and law / edited by Christine Hayes.
ISBN
9781107036154 (hardcover)
1107036151 (hardcover)
9781107644946 (paperback)
1107644941 (paperback)
Published
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
xi, 424 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
KBM524 .C36 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
340.5/8
Summary
The 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. It also traces the political, social, intellectual, and cultural circumstances that spawned competing Jewish approaches to its own 'divine' law and the 'non-divine' law of others, including that of the modern, secular state of Israel. Part I focuses on the emergence and development of law as an essential element of religious expression in biblical Israel and classical Judaism through the medieval period. Part II considers the ramifications for the law arising from political emancipation and the invention of Judaism as a 'religion' in the modern period. Finally, Part III traces the historical and ideological processes leading to the current configuration of religion and state in modern Israel, analysing specific conflicts between religious law and state law.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Hayes, Christine Elizabeth, editor.
Series
Cambridge companions to religion.
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Introduction: can we even speak of "Judaism and law"? / Christine Hayes
Law in biblical Israel / Chaya Halberstam
Law in Jewish society of the second temple period / Seth Schwartz
Law in classical rabbinic Judaism / Christine Hayes
Approaches to foreign law in biblical Israel and classical Judaism through the medieval period / Beth Berkowitz
Law in medieval Judaism / Warren Zev Harvey
From enlightenment to emancipation / Verena Kasper-Marienberg
Enlightenment conceptions of Judaism and law / Eliyahu Stern
Rethinking Halakhah in modern Eastern Europe : mysticism, antinomianism, positivism / Menachem Lorberbaum
Antinomianism and its responses in the nineteenth century / David Ellenson
New developments in modern Jewish thought : from theology to law and back again / Yonatan Y. Brafman
Judaism and Jewish law in pre-state Palestine / Amihai Radzyner
Judaism, Jewish law and the Jewish state in Israel / Arye Edrei
What does it mean for a state to be Jewish? / Daphne Barak Erez
Fault lines / Patricia J. Woods.

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