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Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures Berkowitz, Beth A. (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Jewish Theological Seminary)
Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures
Berkowitz, Beth A. (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Jewish Theological Seminary)
The death penalty in classical Judaism has been a highly politicized subject in modern scholarship. This book tells the story of modern scholarship on the ancient rabbinic death penalty and continues the story by offering a different perspective using the approaches of ritual studies, cultural criticism, and Talmudic source criticism.
352 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 27, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195179194 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 362 |
| Dimensions | 167 × 242 × 27 mm · 658 g |
| Language | English |