"We act as their agents" and the prohibition of judgment by laymen: a discussion of babylonian Talmud Gittin 88b
A sugya just a few lines long in the Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 88b, had enormous influence on the development of Jewish law in the area of the authority to pass judgment given to rabbinical courts in our day. According to the simple, commonly accepted understanding of this sugya, the Tannaim ruled t...
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Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
[2013]
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AJS review
Year: 2013, Volume: 37, Issue: 2, Pages: 257-283 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Talmûd bavlî. Gittin
/ Law
/ Judgment
/ Layman
B Jewish law / Judge / Rabbi / Duress (Law) / Jurisdiction / Ordination |
RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism |
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