All Articles tagged halakhah

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  January 30, 2020 EDT
  The Primitive Lawyer Speaks!: Thoughts on the Concepts of International and Rabbinic Laws
  Harlan Grant Cohen

  Harlan Grant Cohen's essay discusses the unique relationship between halakhah and international law to explore a deeper understanding of how law can work across various legal systems.

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  Halakhah Between Historicism and Dogmatism
  Christine Hayes

  Christine Hayes proposes phenomenological analysis would be clearer if it explored the larger cultural context shaping rabbis' pursuit of literature over philosophy.

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  The Challenge of Halakhah
  Kevin L. Hughes

  Kevin L. Hughes uses Chaim Saiman's discussion of halakhah to clarify different approaches to fundamental philosophical and theological questions.

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  Defining Law
  Tal Kastner

  Tal Kastner's essay shows how "Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law" invites a new understanding of American law and the way law is embedded in language and narrative.

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  “Turn It and Turn It, For All Is in It”: Reflections on Chaim Saiman’s Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law
  Cathleen Kaveny

  Cathleen Kaveny ponders three questions that could be raised in a graduate seminar in "Comparative Theology and Law."

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  Reading Halakhah As a Secularist
  Sanford Levinson

  This Essay explores the impact of Chaim Saiman’s book from a secular perspective rather than as an adherent of rabbinic Judaism or an Orthodox branch of Judaism.

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  The Expressive Power of Rabbinic Law
  Richard H. McAdams

  This Essay examines how Professor Saiman’s book, Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law, intersects with literature on the expressive powers of law.

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  Implications of the Rabbinic Idea of Law for the History of Halakhah: Dialectics, Apologetics, Fractalization?
  Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg

  This Essay points out some of the implications and complications of Saiman’s bipolar model of halakhah.

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  Temple, Talmud, and Sacrament: Some Christian Thoughts on Halakhah
  Nathan B. Oman

  This Essay responds to Chaim Saiman's book, critiquing its analogy of Jewish law and Christian theology as valid and insightful but incomplete

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  Jurisprudence, Halakhah, and Moral Particularism
  Amy J. Sepinwall

  This Essay discusses the interplay between law and morality in both halakhic and Anglo-American jurisprudence.

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  Review of Chaim Saiman’s The Rabbinic Idea of Law
  Suzanne Last Stone

  This Essay addresses how The Rabbinic Idea of Law delves into the idea of rabbinic law-as-culture.

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  Binaries: Remarks on Chaim N. Saiman’s “Halakhah”
  Richard H. Weisberg

  This Essay proposes solutions to eight binaries arising from Chaim Saiman's book, Halakhah.

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