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Jewish Law: New Perspectives

Jewish Law: New Perspectives

Stone, Suzanne Last
Brafman, Yonatan Y.

Hardcover

Series: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts, Book 26

Literary CriticismJudaismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3110336944
ISBN13: 9783110336948
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Dec 30 2024
Pages: 305
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

New Perspectives on Jewish Law combines the detailed work characteristic of scholarship on Jewish law with an orientation towards its broader academic and cultural significance. It shifts the study of Jewish law from its focus on legal doctrine and history to legal theory, achieving in the process a more sophisticated understanding of law that will benefit both the legal academy and Jewish studies. By employing the framework of legal theory, it similarly corrects an over-emphasis on the metaphysical presuppositions and philosophical implications of Jewish law, which has tended to cast it as exceptional relative to other legal systems. Moreover, it answers to old-new anxieties about law, often symbolized by Judaism, raised by contemporary feminists and by philosophers who are animated by recent interpretations of Paul through actual engagement with the Jewish legal tradition.

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