Research Catalog

Title

The Jewish family / edited by Harry Fox and Tirzah Meacham.

Publication

• [United States] : Published and distributed by Philip I. Lieberman on behalf of the Jewish Law Association, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fox, Harry, 1946-
• Meacham, Tirzah

Description

334 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Jewish Law Association studies, 0890-7552 ; XXVIII

Uniform Title

Jewish Law Association studies ; 28.

Subject

• Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204
• Marriage (Jewish law)
• Jewish marriage customs and rites
• Women (Jewish law)
• Divorce (Jewish law)
• Domestic relations > Israel
• Domestic relations (Jewish law)
• Husband and wife > Israel
• Husband and wife (Jewish law)
• Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law)
• Agunahs
• Noahide Laws
• Natural law > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Domestic relations
• Husband and wife
• Israel

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text in English; citations from sources in Hebrew or Aramaic and in English translation.

Contents

The Way of No Way: The (Dys)functional Jewish Family / Harry Fox -- Sheu'at Zugiyyut: An Oath Model for Jewish Marriage Ceremonies / Tzemah Yoreh -- Religious Law in the Israeil Civil Marriage and Divorce System: The "Is" and the "Ought" / Avishalom Westreich -- An Analysis of Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch's Teshuvah on the Beth Din of America's Prenuptial Agreement / Michael J. Broyde -- "Living as Widows": Narrating the Agunah in Maghredi Rabbinic Texts / Yigal Nizri -- Partnership, Equity, and Traditional Jewish Marriage / Phillip I. Lieberman -- Aesthetic Theory of Ritual Law? / Aubrey L. Glazer -- Between Property and Person: Rape and Rabbinic Approaches to Personal Injury / Aviva Richman -- "Playing with Children": A Talmudic Polemic against Manichaean Sexual Ethics / Yishai Kiel -- Marital Age in Jewish Law - Conflicts between Halakhah and Civl Law / Tirzah Meacham -- Investigating the Female Slave of the Damascus Document / Carmen Palmer -- When Halakhah, Science, Technology, and Ethics Converge / Irit Offer-Stark -- Judicial Genocide: Maimonides on Noahides and Natural Law / Harry Fox -- Response to Harry Fox, "Judical Genocide: Maimonides on Noahides and Natural Law" / David Novak -- Reactiosn to Novak's Critique of Fox on Natural Law / Harry Fox -- Marriage, Freedom and Equality: Can the Three Go Together? / Tirzah Meacham -- Afterword and Responses / Tirzah Meacham -- Review Eassy of Christine Hayes, What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives / David Novak -- Review Essay Christine Hayes, What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives / Harry Fox -- Review of Jonathan S. Milgram, From Mesopotamia to the Mishnah: Tannaitic Inheritance Law in its Legal and Socail Contexts / Matthew Hass -- Review of Geoffrey Herman, A Prince without a Kingdom: The Exilarch in the Sasanian Era / Aranole E. Franklin -- Review of Yishai Kiel, Sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud, Christian and Sasanian Contexts in Late Antiquity / Erez Degolan

Call Number

JFE 22-3339

ISBN

• 9781735179605
• 1735179604
• 9781735179612 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1204669436

Title

The Jewish family / edited by Harry Fox and Tirzah Meacham.

Publisher

[United States] : Published and distributed by Philip I. Lieberman on behalf of the Jewish Law Association, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Jewish Law Association studies, 0890-7552 ; XXVIII

Jewish Law Association studies ; 28.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Text in English; citations from sources in Hebrew or Aramaic and in English translation.

Added Author

Fox, Harry, 1946- editor.

Meacham, Tirzah, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-3339