[PDF.92nj] Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures

Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures

[PDF.ii05] Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures

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 | #2498327 in Books |  2006-03-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.30 x1.40 x9.40l,1.45 | File type: PDF | 362 pages

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|| ||"This is a splendid project. It is conceived brilliantly to be at the solid cutting edge of rabbinic scholarship. Berkowitz looks at the discourse of the death penalty as a discourse of power, as a way of asserting rabbinic authority, or even of constructing

The death penalty in classical Judaism has been a highly politicized subject in modern scholarship. Enlightenment attacks on the Talmud's legitimacy led scholars to use the Talmud's criminal law as evidence for its elevated morals. But even more pressing was the need to prove Jews' innocence of the charge of killing Christ. The reconstruction of a just Jewish death penalty was a defense against the accusation that a corrupt Jewish court was responsible for the death o...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures   |  Beth A. Berkowitz. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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