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This book opens windows onto various aspects of Jewish legal culture. Rather than taking a structural approach, and attempting to circumscribe and define 'every' element of Jewish law, Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture takes a dynamic and holistic approach, describing diverse manifestations of Jewish legal culture, and its general mind-set, without seeking to fit them into a single structure.Jewish legal culture spans two millennia, and evolved in geographic centers that were often very distant from one another both geographically and socio-culturally. It encompasses the Talmud and talmudic li

Introduction: can we even speak of "Judaism and law"? / Christine Hayes -- Law in biblical Israel / Chaya Halberstam -- Law in Jewish society of the second temple period / Seth Schwartz -- Law in classical rabbinic Judaism / Christine Hayes -- Approaches to foreign law in biblical Israel and classical Judaism through the medieval period / Beth Berkowitz, Barnard College -- Law in medieval Judaism / Warren Zev Harvey -- From enlightenment to emancipation / Verena Kasper-Marienberg -- Enlightenment conceptions of Judaism and law / Eliyahu Stern -- Rethinking Halakhah in modern Eastern Europe : mysticism, antinomianism, positivism / Menachem Lorberbaum -- Antinomianism and its responses : 19th century / David Ellenson -- New developments in modern Jewish thought : from theology to law and ack again / Yonatan Brafman -- Judaism, Jewish law in pre-state Palestine / Amihai Radzyner -- Judaism, Jewish law and the Jewish state in Israel / Arye Edrei -- What does it mean for a state to be Jewish? / Daphne Barak Erez -- Fault lines / Patricia J. Woods