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.
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Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
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Capital punishment -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Capital punishment -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- Talmud.
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Capital punishment -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Capital punishment in rabbinical literature
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Capital punishment -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Rabbinical literature
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Rabbinismus
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Christentum
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Todesstrafe
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Rabbinische Literatur
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
0195179196 |
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9780195179194 |
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9781435618428 |
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1435618424 |
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9780199784509 |
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0199784507 |
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