[PDF.50fv] Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

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 | #660420 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  2008-05-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.63 x5.98l,1.11 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Worthwhile Read|By Simcha M. Gross|In Professor Devora Steinmetz's new book "Punishment and Freedom," her acumen is made accessible to the reader through her comprehensible writing. This book is an insightful journey into the legal self-understanding of the Sages of the Mishnaic and Talmudic period. Examining choice passages from the Talmud, Professor Steinmetz uncovers a var| ||"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

In Punishment and Freedom, Devora Steinmetz offers a fresh look at classical rabbinic texts about criminal law from the perspective of legal and moral philosophy. Steinmetz holds that the criminal and judicial procedures they describe were never designed to be applied in a real state. Rather, these texts deal with broader philosophical, theological, and ethical conceptions of the law.

Through close readings of passages describing criminal procedure and pu...

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