Week 11: "Values" in the Jewish Legal System
Required Reading (BA and MA)
Jackson, "Secular Jurisprudence and the Philosophy of Jewish Law: A Commentary on Some Recent Literature", The Jewish Law Annual 6 (1987), 3-42 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Required Reading (MA)
H. Ben-Menahem, "The Judicial Process and the Nature lof Jewish Law", in N.S. Hecht, B.S. Jackson et al., An Introduction to the History and Sources of Jewish Law, ch.16 (349.33/H16; Short loan)
Further Reading
"Mishneh Torah Studies", The Jewish Law Annual 1 (1978), Pt 1, articles by Goodman, Blidstein, Silver, Levinger (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Ben-Menachem, Hanina, Judicial Deviation in Talmudic Law, 1991 (BSJ: order)
Blidstein, G.J., "In the Shadow of the Mountain: Consent and Coercion at Sinai", Jewish Political Studies Review 4/1 (1992), 41-53 (ask BSJ)
Cohen, B., "Law and Ethics in the Light of the Jewish Tradition", in Law and Tradition in Judaism. New York: Ktav & Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1959, ch.3 (BSJ: order)
Elman, Y., "Reb Zadok Hakohen of Lublin on Prophecy in th Halakhic Process", in B.S. Jackson, ed., The Touro Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1985: Jewish Law Association Studies, I), 1-16 (on order)
Faur, J., "The Fundamental Principles of Jewish Jurisprudence", New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 12 (1979), 225 (ask BSJ)
Fox, M., "Law and Morality in the Thought of Maimonides", in Maimonides as Codifier of Jewish Law, ed. N. Rakover, Jerusalem: Jewish Law Heritage Society, 1987, pp.105-120. (on order)
Fox, M., "Natural Law and Judaism", Judaism 45/1 (1996), pp.30-43
Friedell, S.F., "The "Different Voice" in Jewish Law: Some Parallels to a Feminist Jurisprudence", Indiana Law Journal 67/4 (1992), 915-949 (ask BSJ)
Golding, M.P., ed., Jewish Law and Legal Theory (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1994), Blue 4, 349.33/G191
Hirsch, S.R., Horeb; A Philosophy of Jewish Laws and Observances. 2 v. London: Soncino, 1962 (Blue, Flr 4, 296/H37)
Jackson, B.S., "Jewish Law or Jewish Laws", The Jewish Law Annual 8 (1989), 15-34 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Jacobs, Louis, Theology in the Responsa, London (etc.): Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975, Blue 4, 296/J21
Kaplan, M., "Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik's Philosophy of Halakhah", Jewish Law Annual 7 (1988), 139-197 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Konvitz, M., "Natural Law and Judaism: The Case of Maimonides", Judaism 45/1 (1996), 30-45 (Per.Relig.Blue 4 JUDAISM)
Lamm, N. and A. Kirschenbaum, A., "Freedom and Constraint in the Jewish Juridical Process", Cardozo Law Review 1 (1979), 99ff. (extract in Golding, above) (BSJ)
Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah Tractate Sanhedrin, Translated by Fred Rosner. New York: Sepher-Hermon, 1981, 0 87203 099 7 (Blue, Flr 4, 296,22/M23)
Maimonides' Introduction to the Talmud: A Translation of the Rambam's Introduction to His Commentary on the Mishna. Translated by Zvi Lampel. New York: Judaica Press, 1975 (on order)
Milgrom, J., "Ethics and Ritual: The Foundations of the Biblical Dietary Laws" in Religion and Law, Biblical-Judaic and Islamic Perspectives, ed. E.B. Firmage, B.G. Weiss and J.W. Welch (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1990), pp.159-191; response by Wright at 193-198 (Blue, Flr 4, 220.834/F1)
Munk, Reinier, The Rationale of Halakhic Man (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1996). Blue 4, 109.313/M47
Orlinsky, H.M., The Bible as Law: God and Israel under Contract, 1976 (ask BSJ)
Rackman, E., "God and Man in the Judicial Process of the Halakhah", typescript (ask BSJ)
Rackman, E., "Meta-Halacha Values", Justice 16 (1998), 39-42 (ask BSJ)
Rackman, E., "Theocentricity in Jewish Law", Bar-Ilan University, Workshop in the Covenant Idea and the Jewish Politica Idea, 1980 (ask BSJ)
Schneebalg, "The Philosophy of Jewish Law - A Reply to Professor Faur", New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 13 (1980), 381 (ask BSJ)
Segal, P., "Postbiblical Jewish Criminal Law and Theology", Jewish Law Annual 9 (1991), 107-122 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Silberg, M., "Law and Morals in Jewish Jurisprudence", Harvard Law Review 75 (1961), 306 (extract in Golding, above) (Per.Law: Red 3 HARVARD)
Silving, H., "The Jurisprudence of the Old Testament", New York University Law Review 28 (1953), 1129 (Per.Law: Red 3 NEW YORK)
Soloveitchik, J.B. Halakhic Man. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1983. Pt.I (Blue, Flr 4, 296/S127)
Soloveitchik, J.B., The Halakhic Mind. NY: Seth Press, 1986 (order)
Stone, S.L., "In Pursuit of the Countertext: The Turn to the Jewish Legal Model in Contemporary American Legal Theory", Harvard Law Review 106/4 (1993), 813-894 (Per.Law: Red 3 HARVARD)
The Jewish Law Annual, Vols. 6-7, esp. Bleich (extract also in Golding, below) and Novak (vol. 7) (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Urbach, E.E., The Sages, Their Concepts and Beliefs. Jerusalem: Magnes, 1975 (Blue, Flr 4, 296/U23)
Wacholder, B.Z., Messianism and Mishnah, Time and Place in the Early Halakhah, Hebrew Union College Press 1979 (ask BSJ)
Wegner, J.R., "Attah Konanta Mesharim"
God and King in the Theocratic Jurisprudence of Ancient Israel", in
B.S. Jackson and S.M. Passamaneck, eds., The Jeruslem 1990 Conference
Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992: Jewish Law Association Studies,
VI), pp.157-178 (Blue 4, 349.33/J4)
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