Execution and invention death penalty discourse in early Rabbinic and Christian cultures
Beth Berkowitz explores modern scholarship on the ancient Rabbinic death penalty and offers a fresh perspective using the approaches of ritual studies, cultural criticism and Talmudic source criticism. She argues that the death penalty was used by the early Rabbis in an attempt to assert their autho...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2006, c2006
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Beth Berkowitz explores modern scholarship on the ancient Rabbinic death penalty and offers a fresh perspective using the approaches of ritual studies, cultural criticism and Talmudic source criticism. She argues that the death penalty was used by the early Rabbis in an attempt to assert their authority |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 349 p. |
| ISBN: | 9780199784509 0199784507 |