Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law. By Devora Steinmetz
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 comma...
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格式: | 電子 Review |
語言: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, 卷: 60, 發布: 2, Pages: 652-657 |
Review of: | Punishment and freedom (Philadelphia, Pa. : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) (Jackson, B. S.)
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總結: | 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). |
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ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp034 |