Title Execution and invention : death penalty discourse in early Rabbinic and Christian cultures / Beth A. Berkowitz

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) Contents 1. Introduction, execution and invention -- 2. Reading execution, a century of scholarship on the ancient Jewish death penalty -- 3. Ritualization and redemption, Mishnah Sanhedrin chapter six -- 4. Performing execution, part I, the blood-avenger, the community, and the witness -- 5. Performing execution, part 2, the relatives and the rabbis -- 6. Paradoxes of power, "the way that the kingdom does it" -- 7. The judge and the martyr, execution and authority in early Christianity Summary Beth Berkowitz explores modern scholarship on the ancient Rabbinic death penalty and offers a fresh perspective using the approaches of ritual studies, cultural criticism and Talmudic source criticism. She argues that the death penalty was used by the early Rabbis in an attempt to assert their authority Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-329) and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Capital punishment in rabbinical literature. Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism Capital punishment -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Capital punishment -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. RELIGION -- Judaism -- Talmud. Capital punishment -- Religious aspects -- Judaism Capital punishment in rabbinical literature Capital punishment -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Rabbinical literature Rabbinismus Christentum Todesstrafe Rabbinische Literatur Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0195179196 9780195179194 9781435618428 1435618424 9780199784509 0199784507

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