Yair Lorberbaum

Disempowered King

Monarchy in Classical Jewish Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Absorbing and original study of the concept of kingship in classical Jewish literature, as well as three approaches to it found in the Bible. >

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Continnuum-3PL
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 511g
• ISBN-13: 9781441154293
• ISBN-10: 1441154299
• Artikelnr.: 29946552

Autorenporträt

Yair Lorberbaum is Professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He has served as a guest lecturer at Cardozo Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Princeton University, and Yale University. His most recent book, Image of God: Halakha and Aggadah, won him the prestigious Goldstein-Goren Book Award for 2007-2010; the award is bestowed once every three years to the author of the best recent book in the field of Jewish thought.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Three Conceptions of Kingship in the Bible \ 2. Rabbinic Literature I -
The Law of the King \ 3. Rabbinic Literature II - The King and the Law \ 4.
 Restricted Kingship in Tannaitic Halakhah - Reasons and Contexts \ 5.
Echo's of Direct Theocracy and of Royal Theology in Aggadah \ 6. The Rabbis
Conception of Kingship in Light of their Socio-Political Status \
Bibliography \ Index of Sources \ Index of Names \ General Index