Law and Truth in Biblical and Rabbinic Literature

by Chaya Halberstam (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $46.43

  Shows that early rabbinic jurisprudence is characterized by fundamental uncertainty. This book argues that while the Hebrew Bible created a sense of confidence and transparency before the law, the rabbis complicated paths to knowledge and undermined the stability of personal status and ownership, and notions of guilt or innocence.