Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture Fourteen Exploratory Essays |
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Editor:
| Ben-Menahem, Hanina Edrei, Arye Hecht, Neil S. |
ISBN: | 978-0-415-50049-4 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
Publisher: | Routledge
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Book Format: | Multiple-item retail product |
List Price: | USD $250.00USD $260.00 |
Book Description:
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This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood. Each chapter is a self-contained journey, as it were, into a feature of the Jewish legal landscape. In other words, rather than taking a structural approach, and attempting to neatly circumscribe and define 'every' element of Jewish law, Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture takes a dynamic and holistic approach, describing...
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This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood. Each chapter is a self-contained journey, as it were, into a feature of the Jewish legal landscape. In other words, rather than taking a structural approach, and attempting to neatly circumscribe and define 'every' element of Jewish law, Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture takes a dynamic and holistic approach, describing diverse manifestations of Jewish legal culture, without seeking to fit them into a single structure.