Execution and invention [electronic resource] : death penalty discourse in early Rabbinic and Christian cultures / Beth A. Berkowitz.

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Berkowitz, Beth A

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Oxford eBooks

Publication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2006.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 349 p.)ISBN:

0195179196

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Electronic books.

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296.120836466 22

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BM496.9.C35

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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.

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.