John Selden On Jewish Marriage Law

Author : Ziskind
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 549 pages
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Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004671539

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John Selden on Jewish Marriage Law by Ziskind Pdf

This book contains a lengthy introduction, translation and commentary on John Selden's Uxor Hebraica. Selden was a seventeenth century Christian talmudist, classicist, legal historian and member of the British parliament who wrote extensively on a wide variety of subjects including seven books, all in Latin, of various aspects of Jewish Law. Uxor Hebraica is an exhaustive treatment of Jewish marriage law. Among the subjects treated are incest (including a unique discussion of the Karaite rules), levirate, the marriage contract and ceremonies and divorce. Selden extensively used the Hebrew Bible, its ancient and later translations, the Talmud, and especially Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. He widened his discussion by including comparative material from the New Testament, church fathers, Greece and Rome, Islam, plus usages from Ethiopia, Russia, Byzantium and medieval Europe. Although written without polemic, the work is clearly related to the religious controversies of the day.

Author : John Selden,Ziskind
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004092374

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John Selden on Jewish Marriage Law by John Selden,Ziskind Pdf

This book contains a lengthy introduction, translation and commentary on John Selden's Uxor Hebraica. Selden was a seventeenth century Christian talmudist, classicist, legal historian and member of the British parliament who wrote extensively on a wide variety of subjects including seven books, all in Latin, of various aspects of Jewish Law. Uxor Hebraica is an exhaustive treatment of Jewish marriage law. Among the subjects treated are incest (including a unique discussion of the Karaite rules), levirate, the marriage contract and ceremonies and divorce. Selden extensively used the Hebrew Bible, its ancient and later translations, the Talmud, and especially Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. He widened his discussion by including comparative material from the New Testament, church fathers, Greece and Rome, Islam, plus usages from Ethiopia, Russia, Byzantium and medieval Europe. Although written without polemic, the work is clearly related to the religious controversies of the day.

Author : Reid Barbour
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802087760

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John Selden by Reid Barbour Pdf

John Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England is the first text in over a century to examine the whole of Selden's works and thought. Reid Barbour brings a new perspective to Selden studies by stressing Selden's strong commitment to a 'religious society,' by taking a closer and more sustained look at his poetic interests, and by systematically examining his Latin publications (particularly those using Jewish sources). Offering critical close readings of Selden's oeuvre, Barbour posits that the overriding aim of Selden's career was to bolster religious society in the face of its imminent demise. He argues that Selden's scholarly career was committed to resolving an essentially religious question about how best to establish the holy commonwealth in both lawfulness and spiritual abundance. Perhaps the greatest strength of Barbour's analysis emerges from his overall interpretation of Selden's corpus within the context of what the author calls a "religious society"; this approach emphasizes the religious commitments of Selden and subverts earlier readings of him as a cynical, skeptical, secular thinker who attacked, rather than upheld, a Judeo-Christian model of society. Engaging in style and substantive in analysis, Barbour's John Selden will add considerably to the limited body of work on this important seventeenth-century savant.

Author : Jason P. Rosenblatt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192842923

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John Selden by Jason P. Rosenblatt Pdf

The life of John Selden (1584-1654) was both contemplative and active. Seventeenth-century England's most learned person, he was also one of the few survivors who continued in the Long Parliament of the 1640s his vigorous opposition, begun in the 1620s, to abuses of power, whether by Charles I or, later, by the Presbyterian-controlled Westminster Assembly. His gift for finding analogies among different cultures--Greco-Roman, Christian, Jewish, and Islamic--helped to transform both the poetry and prose of the century's greatest poet, John Milton. Regarding family law, the two might have influenced one another. Milton cites Selden, and Selden owned two of Milton's treatises on divorce, published in 1645, both of them presumably acquired while he was writing Uxor Ebraica (1646). Selden accepted the non-biblically rabbinic, externally imposed, coercive Adamic/Noachide precepts as universal laws of perpetual obligation, rejecting his predecessor Hugo Grotius' view of natural law as the innate result of right reason. He employed rhetorical strategies in De Jure Naturali et Gentium (The Law of Nature and of Nations) to prepare his readers for what might otherwise have shocked them. Although Selden was very active in the Long Parliament, his only surviving debates from that decade were as a lay member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. The Assembly's scribe left so many gaps that the transcript is sometimes indecipherable. This book fills in the gaps and makes the speeches coherent by finding their contexts in Selden's printed works, both the scholarly, as in the massive De Synedriis, but also in the witty and informal Table Talk.

Author : Ofir Haivry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107011342

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John Selden and the Western Political Tradition by Ofir Haivry Pdf

This detailed analysis establishes John Selden as one of the most interesting and important early modern political theorists.

Author : Jason P. Rosenblatt
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191536694

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Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden by Jason P. Rosenblatt Pdf

In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden's immense, neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship that respects, to an extent remarkable for the times, the self-understanding of Judaism. Scholars celebrated for their own broad and deep learning gladly conceded Selden's superiority and conferred on him titles such as 'the glory of the English nation' (Hugo Grotius), 'Monarch in letters' (Ben Jonson), 'the chief of learned men reputed in this land' (John Milton). Although scholars have examined Selden (1584-1654) as a political theorist, legal and constitutional historian, and parliamentarian, Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi is the first book-length study of his rabbinic and especially talmudic publications, which take up most of the six folio volumes of his complete works and constitute his most mature scholarship. It traces the cultural influence of these works on some early modern British poets and intellectuals, including Jonson, Milton, Andrew Marvell, James Harrington, Henry Stubbe, Nathanael Culverwel, Thomas Hobbes, and Isaac Newton. It also explores some of the post-biblical Hebraic ideas that served as the foundation of Selden's own thought, including his identification of natural law with a set of universal divine laws of perpetual obligation pronounced by God to our first parents in paradise and after the flood to the children of Noah. Selden's discovery in the Talmud and in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah of shared moral rules in the natural, pre-civil state of humankind provides a basis for relationships among human beings anywhere in the world. The history of the religious toleration of Jews in England is incomplete without acknowledgment of the impact of Selden's uncommonly generous Hebrew scholarship.

Author : Moses Mielziner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Divorce
ISBN : OXFORD:N12917792

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The Jewish Law of Marriage and Divorce in Ancient and Modern Times by Moses Mielziner Pdf

Author : John Witte, Jr,Gary S. Hauk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108415347

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Christianity and Family Law by John Witte, Jr,Gary S. Hauk Pdf

A comprehensive analysis of Christian influences on Western family law from the first century to the present day.

Author : John Witte, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107184756

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Church, State, and Family by John Witte, Jr. Pdf

Presents a robust defence of the essential place of stable marital families in modern liberal societies.

Author : Bernard S. Jackson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 3718605465

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The Jewish Law Annual by Bernard S. Jackson Pdf

Published under the auspices of The Institute of Jewish Law, Boston U. School of Law. Part One, Parent and Child, contains an introduction followed by ten papers on topics including the law and the relationship between parents and children, the welfare of the child and religious considerations, and physical violence by parents against their children in Jewish history and Jewish law. Part Two, Chronicle, addresses Jewish law in the State of Israel and constricting religious freedom in the US. Part Three comprises a survey of recent literature. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : J.E. Force,R.H. Popkin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401724265

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Newton and Religion by J.E. Force,R.H. Popkin Pdf

Over the past twenty-five years - since the very large collection of Newton's papers became available and began to be seriously examined - the beginnings of a new picture of Newton has emerged. This volume of essays builds upon the foundation of its authors in their previous works and extends and elaborates the emerging picture of the `new' Newton, the great synthesizer of science and religion as revealed in his intellectual context.

Author : Jason P. Rosenblatt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400821303

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Torah and Law in Paradise Lost by Jason P. Rosenblatt Pdf

It has been the fate of Milton, the most Hebraic of the great English poets, to have been interpreted in this century largely by those inhospitable to his Hebraism. To remedy this lack of balance, Jason Rosenblatt reveals Milton's epic representations of paradise and the fallen world to be the supreme coordinates of an interpretive struggle, in which Jewish beliefs that the Hebrew Bible was eternally authoritative Torah were set against the Christian view that it was a temporary law superseded by the New Testament. Arguing that the Milton of the 1643-1645 prose tracts saw the Hebrew Bible from the Jewish perspective, Rosenblatt shows that these tracts are the principal doctrinal matrix of the middle books of Paradise Lost, which present the Hebrew Bible and Adam and Eve as self-sufficient entities. Rosenblatt acknowledges that later in Paradise Lost, after the fall, a Pauline hermeneutic reduces the Hebrew Bible to a captive text and Adam and Eve to shadowy types. But Milton's shift to a radically Pauline ethos at that point does not annul the Hebraism of the earlier part of the work. If Milton resembles Paul, it is not least because his thought could attain harmonies only through dialectic. Milton's poetry derives much of its power from deep internal struggles over the value and meaning of law, grace, charity, Christian liberty, and the relationships among natural law, the Mosaic law, and the gospel.

Author : Kevin Killeen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351955423

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Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England by Kevin Killeen Pdf

Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early modern scholarly culture understood the relations between its disciplines. Browne's work encompasses biblical commentary, historiography, natural history, classical philology, artistic propriety and an encyclopaedic coverage of natural philosophy. This book traces the intellectual climate in which such disparate interests could cohere, locating Browne within the cultural and political matrices of his time. While Browne is most frequently remembered for the magnificence of his prose and his temperamental poise, qualities that knit well with the picture of a detached, apolitical figure, this work argues that Browne's significance emerges most fully in the context of contemporary battles over interpretative authority, within the intricately linked fields of biblical exegesis, scientific thought, and politics. Killeen's work centres on a reassessment of the scope and importance of Browne's most elaborate text, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, his vast encyclopaedia of error with its mazy series of investigations and through this explores the multivalent nature of early-modern enquiry.

Author : Guy G. Stroumsa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674048601

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A New Science by Guy G. Stroumsa Pdf

Guy Stroumsa offers an innovative and powerful argument that the comparative study of religion finds its origin in early modern Europe. --from publisher description.

Author : Louis M. Epstein
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ketubah
ISBN : 9781584774648

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The Jewish Marriage Contract by Louis M. Epstein Pdf

Epstein, Louis M. The Jewish Marriage Contract: A Study in the Status of the Woman in Jewish Law. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1927. xvii, 316 pp. Reprint available December, 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 1-58477-464-9. Cloth. $85. * A cogent and compelling examination of the history and significance of the Jewish marriage contract, the Ketubah, with extensive notes in Hebrew and English. As Epstein notes in the preface, the Ketubah offers an excellent introduction to the character of Jewish marriage because it is not a sentimental, rhetorical or subjective text. Instead, it is "a legal document embodying the essential points agreed upon by the parties and sanctioned by the law as to the manner of their living together as husband and wife" [2]. This work will interest those concerned with property rights, family, divorce, and the evolution of betrothal and marriage.