Studies in Mediaeval Halakhah in honor of Stephen M. Passamaneck

Edited by Alyssa Gray and Bernard Jackson

1. Dvora E. WEISBERG, Dr Stephen Passamaneck: An Appreciation

2. Judith BASKIN, Male Piety, Female Bodies: Men, Women, and Ritual Immersion in Medieval Ashkenaz

3. Leah BORNSTEIN-MAKOVETSKY, The Attitude of Jewish Scholars to Jewish Conversion to Islam and Christianity during the Last Century of the Ottoman Empire

4. Michael CHERNICK, Polysemous Sugyot as a Source of Rishonic Debates about Normative Halakhah

5. David ELLENSON, The Talmudic Principle, If One Come Forth to Slay You, Forestall by Slaying Him in Israeli Public Policy: A Responsum by Rabbi Hayyim David Halevi

6. Yaakov ELMAN, The Socioeconomics of Babylonian Heresy

7. Abraham M. FUSS, Duress and Moda'ah in the Law of Sales 

8. Aharon GAIMANI, Rabbi Yitsak Alfasi in the literature of Yemenite Jews

9. Hillel GAMORAN, From R. Judah bar Ilai to the Heter Iska

10. Alyssa GRAY, Married Women and Tsedaqah in Medieval Jewish Law: Gender and the Discourse of Legal Obligation

11. Bernard S. JACKSON, Medieval Halakhah - Reflections on Periodization and the Problem of the Agunah

12. Aaron D. PANKEN, Revealing Rabbinic Revision: Meikara as a Marker for Legal Change in Talmud Bavli    

13. Yosef RIVLIN, Ethics and Law in Maimonides' Rulings   

14. Mark WASHOFSKY, On the Absence of Method in Jewish Bioethics: Rabbi Yehezkel Landau on Autopsy

15. Elimelech WESTREICH, Historical Landmarks in the Tradition of Moroccan Jewish Family Law: The Case of Levirate Marriages

ISBN 978-0-9528938-7-5 (hardback), 978-0-9528938-8-2 (paperback), 2007, Pp. vi + 322.