Jewish Law and Academic Discipline. Contributions from Europe

Edited by Elisha Ancselovits and George R. Wilkes

Editors’ Introduction (vii-xi)

Section One: Jewish Law as the Law of a Minority 

1: Hendrik PEKÁREK, The Law on Circumcision in Germany (1-21) 

2: Stephan WENDEHORST, In and Out of Ecclesiastical Law: On the Emergence and Disappearance of the Ius Ecclesiasticum Iudaicum in late 18th and early 19th Century Germany (22-54) 

 3: David J. FINE, Towards a Positive-Historical Approach to Contemporary Issues in Jewish Law (55-69) 

 4: Amos ISRAEL-VLEESCHHOUWER, Introducing Jews’ Laws through the Study of Genocide and Rape (70-108) 

Section Two: Jewish Law as Humanistic Law 

5: George R. WILKES, Teaching about ‘War in Jewish Law’ to Non-Lawyers in a European University Context (109-126) 

6: Federico DAL BO, Legal and Transgressive Sex, Heresy, and Hermeneutics in the Talmud: The Cases of Bruriah, Rabbi Meir, Elisha ben Abuyah and the Prostitute (127-151) 

7: Elisha ANCSELOVITS, Second Temple Phronetic Jewish Law (152-189) 

8: Nechama HADARI, On the Halakhic Status of Coercive Treatment in the Case of Patients Suffering from Anorexia Nervosa (190-210) 

ISBN 978-1-906731-29-8 (hardback), 978-1-906731-30-4 (paperback), 2016, Pp. xii + 210