Beth A Berkowitz: 3 books
Execution and Invention
Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
The death penalty in classical Judaism has been a highly politicized subject in modern scholarship. Enlightenment attacks on the Talmud's legitimacy led scholars to use the Talmud's criminal law as evidence for its elevated morals. But even more pressing was the need to prove Jews' innocence of the...
Defining Jewish Difference
From Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
This book traces the interpretive career of Leviticus 18:3, a verse that forbids Israel from imitating its neighbors. Beth A. Berkowitz shows that ancient, medieval and modern exegesis of this verse provides an essential backdrop for today's conversations about Jewish assimilation and minority identity...
by Beth A. Berkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud selects key themes in animal studies - animal intelligence, morality, sexuality, suffering, danger, personhood - and explores their development in the Babylonian Talmud. Beth A. Berkowitz demonstrates that distinctive features of the Talmud - the new...