A Sacred Trust
Author : Eugene Labovitz
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780914615125
Author : Eugene Labovitz
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780914615125
Author : Adin Steinsaltz
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780679773672
Since it was first published in 1989, the "Talmud Reference Guide" has introduced thousands of people to the study of the books of Jewish law. The guide is an historical treatise on the Talmud and its role in Jewish life, as well as an essential road map to the twenty projected volumes of the Steinsaltz translation. Brilliantly written and lavishly designed and illustrated, this full-length guide will raise interest in the Talmud.
Author : Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801897467
Jeffrey L. Rubenstein continues his grand exploration of the ancient rabbinic tradition of the Talmudic sages, offering deep and complex analysis of eight stories from the Babylonian Talmud to reconstruct the cultural and religious world of the Babylonian rabbinic academy. Rubenstein combines a close textual and literary examination of each story with a careful comparison to earlier versions from other rabbinic compilations. This unique approach provides insight not only into the meaning and content of the current forms of the stories but also into how redactors reworked those earlier versions to address contemporary moral and religious issues. Rubenstein's analysis uncovers the literary methods used to compose the Talmud and sheds light on the cultural and theological perspectives of the Stammaim—the anonymous editor-redactors of the Babylonian Talmud. Rubenstein also uses these stories as a window into understanding more broadly the culture of the late Babylonian rabbinic academy, a hierarchically organized and competitive institution where sages studied the Torah. Several of the stories Rubenstein studies here describe the dynamics of life in the academy: master-disciple relationships, collegiality and rivalry, and the struggle for leadership positions. Others elucidate the worldview of the Stammaim, including their perspectives on astrology, theodicy, and revelation. The third installment of Rubenstein’s trilogy of works on the subject, Stories of the Babylonian Talmud is essential reading for all students of the Talmud and rabbinic Judaism.
Author : David C. Flatto
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674249585
A scholar of law and religion uncovers a surprising origin story behind the idea of the separation of powers. The separation of powers is a bedrock of modern constitutionalism, but striking antecedents were developed centuries earlier, by Jewish scholars and rabbis of antiquity. Attending carefully to their seminal works and the historical milieu, David Flatto shows how a foundation of democratic rule was contemplated and justified long before liberal democracy was born. During the formative Second Temple and early rabbinic eras (the fourth century BCE to the third century CE), Jewish thinkers had to confront the nature of legal authority from the standpoint of the disempowered. Jews struggled against the idea that a legal authority stemming from God could reside in the hands of an imperious ruler (even a hypothetical Judaic monarch). Instead scholars and rabbis argued that such authority lay with independent courts and the law itself. Over time, they proposed various permutations of this ideal. Many of these envisioned distinct juridical and political powers, with a supreme law demarcating the respective jurisdictions of each sphere. Flatto explores key Second Temple and rabbinic writings—the Qumran scrolls; the philosophy and history of Philo and Josephus; the Mishnah, Tosefta, Midrash, and Talmud—to uncover these transformative notions of governance. The Crown and the Courts argues that by proclaiming the supremacy of law in the absence of power, postbiblical thinkers emphasized the centrality of law in the people’s covenant with God, helping to revitalize Jewish life and establish allegiance to legal order. These scholars proved not only creative but also prescient. Their profound ideas about the autonomy of law reverberate to this day.
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Page : 702 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : Saul J. Berman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1316817717
Talmudic legislation prescribed penalty for a Jew to testify in a non-Jewish court, against a fellow Jew, to benefit a gentile - for breach of a duty of loyalty to a fellow Jew. Through close textual analysis, Saul Berman explores how Jewish jurists responded when this virtue of loyalty conflicted with values such as Justice, avoidance of desecration of God's Name, deterrence of crime, defence of self, protection of Jewish community, and the duty to adhere to Law of the Land. Essential for scholars and graduate students in Talmud, Jewish law and comparative law, this key volume details the nature of these loyalties as values within the Jewish legal system, and how the resolution of these conflicts was handled. Berman additionally explores why this issue has intensified in contemporary times and how the related area of 'Mesirah' has wrongfully come to be prominently associated with this law regulating testimony.
Author : Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Talmud Yerushalmi
ISBN : 9783110411652
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004424326
In The Book of the Twelve: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation, an international group of biblical scholars discuss different aspects of the formation, interpretation, and reception of the Book of the Twelve as a literary unity.
Author : Rabbi Yosef Gikatilla
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 17,98 MB
Release : 2020-03-09
Category :
ISBN :
In the English language for the first time, HaShem is One is a translation and adaptation of the wondrous book Ginat Egoz, by the spiritual giant Rabbeinu Yosef Gikatilla. An easy read, it is an indispensable book for anyone who wants to know who the God of Israel truly is. This book will shed light and illuminate His absolute, preexistent, Intrinsic Being and promises to bring about a profound paradigm shift in one's understanding of God and His relationship to his world. An absolute must read for anyone who truly and honestly desires closeness to God.
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Page : 758 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2001
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