Review of Fishman, _Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written...
Review of Talya Fishman, Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 424 pp. $65.00. By Sara Ronis...
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Review of Aron Zysow, The Economy of Certainty: An Introduction to the Typology of Islamic Legal Theory. Lockwood Press, 2013. $32.95. By Marc Herman University of Pennsylvania, Religious Studies[1]...
View ArticleLecture by Isaiah Gafni at Cardozo Law School
Isaiah Gafni, Sol Rosenbloom Professor of Jewish History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will be delivering the Eighth Annual Ivan Meyer Lecture in Jewish Law on “Punishment, Blessing or...
View ArticleReview of Secunda, _The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Its Sasanian...
Review of Shai Secunda, The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Its Sasanian Context. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 272 pp. $55.00. By Simcha Gross Nearly forty years ago,...
View ArticleIsaiah Gafni lecture on “Punishment, Blessing or Universal Mission? Ancient...
Isaiah Gafni, Sol Rosenbloom Professor of Jewish History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will be delivering the Eighth Annual Ivan Meyer Lecture in Jewish Law on “Punishment, Blessing or...
View ArticleReview of Sassoon, _The Status of Women in Jewish Tradition_
Review of Isaac Sassoon, The Status of Women in Jewish Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 232 pp. $28.99 By Emmanuel Bloch Over the last several years, the Jewish academic world...
View ArticleReview of Fraade, _Legal Fictions: Studies of Law and Narrative in the...
Review of Steven D. Fraade, Legal Fictions: Studies of Law and Narrative in the Discursive Worlds of Ancient Jewish Sectarians and Sages. Leiden: Brill, 2011. 628 pp. $261.00. By Jon Kelsen Steven...
View ArticleReview of Rapoport-Albert, _Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi,...
Review of Ada Rapoport-Albert, Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbetai Zevi, 1666-1816. Oxford: Littman, 2011. 400 pp. $64.50. By Joshua Schwartz jss578@nyu.edu Ada Rapoport-Albert’s recent...
View ArticleReview of _Feminism, Law, and Religion_
Review of M. A. Failinger, E. R. Schiltz, and S. J. Stabile, Feminism, Law, and Religion. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013. 444 pp. $59.95. By Aviva Richman Reflecting a wide range of...
View ArticleLecture by Yair Lorberbaum on “Transcending the Rationales of the...
The Yeshiva University Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law will be hosting a lecture on Monday, October 20, 2014, 6:30-8:30pm at Cardozo Law School...
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