What’s Divine about Divine Law?

In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it mean...

The Faces of Torah

This volume is a festschrift in honor of Steven Fraade, the Mark Taper Professor of the History o...

Classic Essays in Early Rabbinic Culture and History

Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law explores the Jewish conception of law as an essential ...

Between the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds

In this book, Hayes addresses the central concern in talmudic studies over the genesis of halakhi...

Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law

The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law explores the Jewish conception of law as an essential ...

Classic Essays in Early Rabbinic Culture and History

This volume brings together a set of classic essays on early rabbinic history and culture, seven ...

Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities

In ancient Jewish culture the ideas of purity and impurity defined the socio-cultural boundaries ...

The Faces of Torah

This volume is a festschrift in honor of Steven Fraade, the Mark Taper Professor of the History o...