{"product_id":"punishment-and-freedom-9780812240689","title":"Punishment and Freedom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePunishment and Freedom offers a fresh look at classical rabbinic texts about criminal law from the perspective of legal and moral philosophy, arguing that the Rabbis constructed an extreme positivist view of law that is based in divine command and that is related to the rabinnic notion notion of human freedom and responsibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an exciting and often brilliant work, perhaps the best available analysis of how judicial punishment is understood in rabbinic literature. \u003ci\u003ePunishment and Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e contributes mightily to the most vexed and widely debated issue in all of Jewish legal theory, whether Jewish law is to be conceived as positivist or instead as reflecting a notion of natural law.\" * David Shatz, Yeshiva University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Transliteration\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. \u003ci\u003eHeneq\u003c\/i\u003e and the Nature of Law\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Noachide Law\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Legal Principles and Prohibitions\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Murder and the Social Response to Wrongdoing\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. \"And Live by Them\": Paul and the Rabbis\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Law, Responsibility, and Transformation\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405713973591,"sku":"9780812240689","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812240689.jpg?v=1730493374","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/punishment-and-freedom-9780812240689","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}