Law and self-knowledge in the Talmud

This book examines the emergence of self-knowledge as a determining legal consideration among the rabbis of Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE. Based on close readings of rabbinic texts from Palestine and Babylonia, Ayelet Hoffmann Libson highlights a unique and surprising de...

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主要作者: Libson, Ayelet Hoffmann 1979- (Author)
格式: 電子 圖書
語言:English
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出版: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
In:Year: 2018
評論:[Rezension von: Ayelet Hoffmann Libson, Law and self-knowledge in the Talmud] (2019) (Wolf, Sarah)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Talmud / 哈拉卡 / 自我知識
Further subjects:B Talmud ; Psychology
B Self-knowledge, Theory of
B Talmud Psychology
B 學位論文
B Jewish Law Psychological aspects
B Jewish law ; Psychological aspects
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Print version: 9781108427494
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總結:This book examines the emergence of self-knowledge as a determining legal consideration among the rabbis of Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE. Based on close readings of rabbinic texts from Palestine and Babylonia, Ayelet Hoffmann Libson highlights a unique and surprising developing in Talmudic jurisprudence, whereby legal decision-making incorporated personal and subjective information. She examines the central legal role accorded to individuals' knowledge of their bodies and mental states in areas of law as diverse as purity laws, family law and the laws of Sabbath. By focusing on subjectivity and self-reflection, the Babylonian rabbis transformed earlier legal practices in a way that cohered with the cultural concerns of other religious groups in Late Antiquity. They developed sophisticated ideas about the inner self and incorporated these notions into their distinctive discourse of law.
The inward turn in rabbinic literature -- Knowledge of the body : the case of sensation -- Asserting the needs of the body -- Between body and mind : the suffering self -- Self-knowledge and a wife's autonomy -- Conclusion
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2018)
ISBN:1108427499
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/9781108573252