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1. Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture

   Fourteen Exploratory Essays

   Edited by Hanina Ben-Menahem, Arye Edrei, Neil S. Hecht

   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...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture Volume 1

   Fourteen Exploratory Essays

   Edited by Hanina Ben-Menahem, Arye Edrei, Neil S. Hecht

   This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood. Each chapter is a self-contained journey, as it were, into a feature of the Jewish legal landscape. In other words, rather than taking a...

   Published March 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture Volume 2

   Fourteen Exploratory Essays

   Edited by Hanina Ben-Menahem, Arye Edrei, Neil S. Hecht

   This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood. Each chapter is a self-contained journey, as it were, into a feature of the Jewish legal landscape. In other words, rather than taking a...

   Published March 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Jewish Law Annual Volume 19

   Edited by Berachyahu Lifshitz, Hanina Ben-Menahem

   Series: Jewish Law Annual

   Volume 19 of The Jewish Law Annual is a festschrift in honor of Professor Neil S. Hecht. It contains thirteen articles, ten in English and three in Hebrew. Several articles are jurisprudential in nature, focusing on analysis of halakhic institutions and concepts. Elisha Ancselovits discusses the...

   Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
5. Controversy and Dialogue in the Jewish Tradition

   A Reader

   Edited by Hanina Ben-Menahem, Neil Hecht, Shai Wosner

   Controversy is the main instrument by which Judaism develops and shapes its philosophy, theology and law. The rabbinical literature speaks with many voices, debating virtually every subject, and failing to reach a consensus on many. However, this willingness to condone controversy is accompanied by...

   Published August 31st 2005 by Routledge