EBOOK Execution and Invention Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures - BERKOWITZ BETH A

EBOOK Execution and Invention Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures
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Autor: BERKOWITZ BETH A

 Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198039846
EAN: E12BD3F7EB
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Data wydania: 2006
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The death penalty in classical Judaism has been a highly politicized subject in modern scholarship. Those wishing to defend the Talmud from Enlightenment attacks on its legitimacy pointed to Talmudic criminal law as evidence for its elevated, progressive morals. But even more pressing was the need to prove the Jews' innocence of the charge of being Christ-killers. This charge hinged on the reconstruction of the ancient Jewish death penalty. The Gospels show a corrupt Jewish court as responsible for the death of Christ. Contemporary Jewish scholars have argued that the Mishnah's criminal law is in fact rigorously just and even abolitionist with respect to the death penalty. In this book Beth Berkowitz tells the story of modern scholarship on the ancient rabbinic death penalty and continues the story by offering a fresh perspective using the approaches of ritual studies, cultural criticism, and talmudic source criticism.

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BERKOWITZ BETH A