Punishment and Freedom - The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law - Hardback - 2008

Punishment and Freedom offers a fresh look at classical rabbinic texts about criminal law from the perspective of legal and moral philosophy, arguing that the Rabbis constructed an extreme positivist view of law that is based in divine command and that is related to the rabinnic notion notion of human freedom and responsibility.
Year of publication: 2008
Pagination: 224 pages, black white illustrations
Format: Hardback
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