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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
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Devora Steinmetz |
OCLC Number: | 1245774305 |
Notes: | Ḥeneq and the nature of law -- Noachide law -- Legal principles and prohibitions -- Murder and the social response to wrongdoing -- "And live by them" : Paul and the rabbis -- Law, responsibility, and transformation. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 206 pages). |
Contents: | Ḥeneq and the nature of law -- Noachide law -- Legal principles and prohibitions -- Murder and the social response to wrongdoing -- "And live by them": Paul and the rabbis -- Law, responsibility, and transformation. |
Series Title: | Divinations. |
Responsibility: | Devora Steinmetz. |
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This is an exciting and often brilliant work, perhaps the best available analysis of how judicial punishment is understood in rabbinic literature. Punishment and Freedom contributes mightily to the most vexed and widely debated issue in all of Jewish legal theory, whether Jewish law is to be conceived as positivist or instead as reflecting a notion of natural law. * David Shatz, Yeshiva University * Read more...

