RT Review
T1 Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law. By Devora Steinmetz
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 60
IS 2
SP 652
OP 657
A1 Jackson, B. S.
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2009
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/178372546X
AB Largely based on expanded and revised versions of articles published in JJS and HUCA in 2004 and 2005, this stimulating, well-researched and well-written volume seeks to locate the rabbinic construction of criminal law within a theologically informed positivist philosophy of law (law as divine command). Sadly, however, the author’s use of modern jurisprudential models to frame her discussion of the rabbinic material proves problematic., Chapter 1 studies the rabbinic (non-biblical) penalty of strangulation (ḥeneq).
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/flp034