Research Catalog

Title

The impact of technology, science and knowlege / edited by Elisha S. Ancselovits, Elliot N. Dorff, and Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer.

Publication

• [United States] : Published and distributed by Philip I. Lieberman on behalf of the Jewish Law Association, 2020.
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Ancselovits, Elisha
• Dorff, Elliot N.
• Israel-Vleeschhouwer, Amos

Description

204 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Jewish Law Association studies, 0890-7552 ; XXIX

Uniform Title

Jewish Law Association studies ; 29.

Subject

• Judaism and science
• Jewish law > Interpretation and construction
• Technology and Jewish law
• Technology > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Technology > Moral and ethical aspects
• Medicine > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Medical ethics
• Human reproduction (Jewish law)
• Human reproductive technology > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Weapons systems > Technological innovations > Moral and ethical aspects
• Internet > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Responsa > History and criticism
• Responsa

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction - new Horizons in Jewish Law Studies / Elisha Ancselovits
• Section One: Current Jewish Law Methodologies Address the New Challenge Well -- The Challenges and Blessings of the Internet: Technology from an Historical Perspective / Jacob j. Schacter -- Taking Sperm from the Deceased: Israeli Law and Meta-Halakha / Yaacov Shapira -- Precedent and Freedom of Interpretation in Early Modern Ashkenazic Responsa / Jay R. Berkovitz -- The Impact of Erroneous Scientific Beliefs on Jewish Law in Relation to the Halakhic Definition of Death / Daniel Sinclair
• Section Two: Jewish Law Required New Methodologies for Analyzing Issues -- Jewish Law, Techno-Ethics, and Autonomous Weapon Systems: Ethical-Halakhic Perspectives / Nadav S. Berman -- Becoming Yet More Like God: A Jewish Theological, Institutional, and Legal Perspective on Radical Life Extension / Elliot N. Dorff -- Constructing Boundaries of Human Life: Will Biotechnological Enhancements Break the Impasse? / Aron S. Buchman
• Section Three: Jewish Law Requires New Methodologies for Applying Halakhic Information -- Authority Crisis in the Era of Information Flooding: A Challenge Shared by Rabbis and Physicians / Yishai Ofran and Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer -- Science and knowledge as the Means Back to Phronetic (Wise) Law / Elisha S. Ancselovits
• Book Review - Jonathan S. Milgram, Book Review Editor -- Review of Leon Wiener Dow, The Going: A Mediation on Jewish Law / Elliot N. Dorff -- review of Gregg E. Gardner, The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism / Dov Kahane -- Ayelet Hoffman Libson, Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud / Shana Strauch Schick

Call Number

JFE 22-3338

ISBN

• 9781735179629
• 1735179620
• 9781735179643 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1222918560

Title

The impact of technology, science and knowlege / edited by Elisha S. Ancselovits, Elliot N. Dorff, and Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer.

Publisher

[United States] : Published and distributed by Philip I. Lieberman on behalf of the Jewish Law Association, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Jewish Law Association studies, 0890-7552 ; XXIX

Jewish Law Association studies ; 29.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Ancselovits, Elisha, editor.

Dorff, Elliot N., editor.

Israel-Vleeschhouwer, Amos, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-3338