Law Beyond Israel

Author : Holger M. Zellentin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199675579

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Law Beyond Israel by Holger M. Zellentin Pdf

The Hebrew Bible formulates two sets of law: one for the Israelites and one for the gentile "residents" living in the Holy Land. Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur'an argues that these biblical laws for non-Israelites form the historical basis of qur'anic law. This volume corroborates its central claim by assessing laws for gentiles in late antique Jewish and especially in Christian legal discourse, pointing to previously underappreciated legal continuity from the Hebrew Bible to the New Testament and from late antique Christianity to nascent Islam. This volume first sketches the legal obligations that the Hebrew Bible imposes on gentiles, on humanity more broadly and, more specifically, on the non-Israelite residents of the Holy Land. It then traces these laws through Second Temple Judaism to the early Jesus movement, illustrating how the biblical laws for residents inform those formulated in Acts of the Apostles. Building on this legal continuity, the study employs detailed historical and literary analyses of legal narratives in order to make three propositions. Firstly, rabbinic laws for gentiles, the so-called Noahide Laws, while offering a more lenient interpretation than the one we find in Acts, are equally based on the biblical laws for gentiles. Secondly, Christians generally appreciated and even expanded the gentile laws of Acts. Thirdly, the Qur'an reinvents Arabian religious practice by formulating its own distinctive approach to the biblical laws for gentiles, in close continuity with - and at times in critical distance from - late antique Jewish and especially Christian gentile law.

Author : Holger M. Zellentin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Gentiles
ISBN : 0191772372

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Law Beyond Israel by Holger M. Zellentin Pdf

The Hebrew Bible formulates two sets of law: one for Israelites and one for gentiles living in the Holy Land. 'Law Beyond Israel' argues that the laws for non-Israelites form the historical basis of qur'anic law, pointing to legal continuity from the Hebrew Bible to the New Testament and from late antique Christianity to nascent Islam.

Author : Douglas A. Knight
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664221447

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Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel by Douglas A. Knight Pdf

Using socio-anthropological theory and archaeological evidence, Knight argues that while the laws in the Hebrew Bible tend to reflect the interests of those in power, the majority of ancient Israelites--located in villages--developed their own unwritten customary laws to regulate behavior and resolve legal conflicts in their own communities. This book includes numerous examples from village, city, and cult. --from publisher description

Author : Virginia Tilley
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745332358

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Beyond Occupation by Virginia Tilley Pdf

Beyond Occupation looks at three contentious terms that regularly arise in contemporary arguments about Israel's practices towards Palestinians in the occupied territories – occupation, colonialism and apartheid – and considers whether their meanings in international law truly apply to Israel's policies. This analysis is timely and urgent – colonialism and apartheid are serious breaches of human rights law and apartheid is a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The contributors present conclusive evidence that Israel’s administration of the Palestinian territories is consistent with colonialism and apartheid, as these regimes are defined in human rights law. Their analysis further shows that these practices are deliberate Israeli state policies, imposed on the Palestinian civilian population under military occupation. These findings raise serious implications for the legality and legitimacy of Israel's continuing occupation of the Palestinian territories and the responsibility of the entire international community to challenge practices considered contrary to fundamental values of the international legal order.

Author : Shimon Shetreet,Walter Homolka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783110387025

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Jewish and Israeli Law - An Introduction by Shimon Shetreet,Walter Homolka Pdf

This book provides a concise introduction to the basics of Jewish law. It gives a detailed analysis of contemporary public and private law in the State of Israel, as well as Israel’s legal culture, its system of government, and the roles of its democratic institutions: the executive, parliament, and judiciary. The book examines issues of Holocaust, law and religion, constitutionalization, and equality. It is the ultimate book for anyone interested in Israeli Law and its politics. Authors Shimon Shetreet is the Greenblatt Professor of Public and International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the President of the International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace and heads the International Project of Judicial Independence. In 2008, the Mt. Scopus Standards of Judicial Independence were issued under his leadership. Between 1988 and 1996, Professor Shetreet served as a member of the Israeli Parliament, and was a cabinet minister under Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. He was senior deputy mayor of Jerusalem between 1999 and 2003. He was a Judge of the Standard Contract Court and served as a member of the Chief Justice Landau Commission on the Israeli Court System. The author and editor of many books on the judiciary, Professor Shetreet is a member of the Royal Academy of Science and Arts of Belgium. Rabbi Walter Homolka PhD (King’s College London, 1992), PhD (University of Wales Trinity St. David, 2015), DHL (Hebrew Union College, New York, 2009), is a full professor of Modern Jewish Thought and the executive director of the School of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam (Germany). The rector of the Abraham Geiger College (since 2003) is Chairman of the Leo Baeck Foundation and of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Foundation in Potsdam. In addition, he has served as the executive director of the Masorti Zacharias Frankel College since 2013.The author of "Jüdisches Eherecht" and other publications on Jewish Law holds several distinctions: among them the Knight Commander’s Cross of the Austrian Merit Order and the 1st Class Federal Merit Order of Germany. In 2004, President Jacques Chirac admitted Rabbi Homolka to the French Legion of Honor.

Author : Aaron Kirschenbaum
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 088125326X

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Equity in Jewish Law by Aaron Kirschenbaum Pdf

Author : Hilary Lipka,Bruce Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567681607

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Sexuality and Law in the Torah by Hilary Lipka,Bruce Wells Pdf

This book examines many of the laws in the Torah governing sexual relations and the often implicit motivations underlying them. It also considers texts beyond the laws in which legal traditions and ideas concerning sexual behavior intersect and provide insight into ancient Israel's social norms. The book includes extended treatments on the nature and function of marriage and divorce in ancient Israel, the variation in sexual rules due to status and gender, the prohibition on male-with-male sex, and the different types of sexualities that may have existed in ancient Israel. The essays draw on a variety of methodologies and approaches, including narrative criticism, philological analysis, literary theory, feminist and gender theory, anthropological models, and comparative analysis. They cover content ranging from the narratives in Genesis, to the laws of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy, to later re-interpretations of pentateuchal laws in Jeremiah and texts from the Second Temple period. Overall, the book presents a combination of theoretical discussion and close textual analysis to shed new light on the connections between law and sexuality within the Torah and beyond.

Author : Joseph E. David,Yaël Ronen,Yuval Shany,J. H. H. Weiler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108833127

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Strengthening Human Rights Protections in Geneva, Israel, the West Bank and Beyond by Joseph E. David,Yaël Ronen,Yuval Shany,J. H. H. Weiler Pdf

Addresses challenges to the implementation of international human rights law from institutional, normative and practical perspectives.

Author : Hedi Viterbo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009011553

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Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine by Hedi Viterbo Pdf

In this book, Hedi Viterbo radically challenges our picture of law, human rights, and childhood, both in and beyond the Israel/Palestine context. He reveals how Israel, rather than disregarding international law and children's rights, has used them to hone and legitimize its violence against Palestinians. He exposes the human rights community's complicity in this situation, due to its problematic assumptions about childhood, its uncritical embrace of international law, and its recurring emulation of Israel's security discourse. He examines how, and to what effect, both the state and its critics manufacture, shape, and weaponize the categories 'child' and 'adult.' Bridging disciplinary divides, Viterbo analyzes hundreds of previously unexamined sources, many of which are not publicly available. Bold, sophisticated, and informative, Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine provides unique insights into the ever-tightening relationship between law, children's rights, and state violence, at both the local and global levels.

Author : Susan M. Weiss,Netty C. Gross-Horowitz
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611683653

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Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State by Susan M. Weiss,Netty C. Gross-Horowitz Pdf

A comprehensive look at how rabbinical courts control Israeli marriage and divorce

Author : Asher Felix Landau
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1412833868

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Selected Judgments of the Supreme Court of Israel by Asher Felix Landau Pdf

Is Judaism a religion or a nationality? Can a person claim Jewish nationality and, at the same time, no religion? Does conversion from Judaism prevent an individual from emigrating to Israel under the Law of Return? These questions were recently considered by the Israeli Supreme Court, and the judgments rendered are translated in this volume. Palestinian and Israeli statutes concerning immigration, nationalization, and registration are interpreted by the judges.

Author : Liliana Ruth Feierstein,Daniel Weidner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111063041

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Diaspora and Law by Liliana Ruth Feierstein,Daniel Weidner Pdf

Today, law is no longer homogenous or unquestioned. Different overlapping legal systems constantly interfere with one another, both on an international level, in complex transnational contexts such as the European Union or human rights law, but also in the context of cultural diversity or conflicts between religious norms and civil institutions, between minorities and the power of the state. On the other hand, the neutrality of law is also under growing pressure, be it from different global transnational players, or from within nation states where calls are made to adapt law to the will of "the people." The heated European debate on the "refugee crisis" has made it manifest that law is more necessary than ever and yet fundamentally contested, perhaps even caught in contradictions and self-limitations. At the same time, the current perspective on legal problems allows us to address issues of diversity and the role of Europe in the globalized world more clearly. The articles of this book take these recent developments and debates as a starting point to discuss from the perspective of different disciplines the pressing question of how to live together in the new millennium and how to figure the long history of law before, besides, and after the dominant paradigm of state law.

Author : Talia Einhorn
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789403547152

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Private International Law in Israel by Talia Einhorn Pdf

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides ready access to the law applied to cases involving cross border issues in Israel. It offers every lawyer dealing with questions of conflict of laws much-needed access to these conflict rules, presented clearly and concisely by a local expert. Beginning with a general introduction, the monograph goes on to discuss the choice of law technique, sources of private international law, and the relevant connection with other laws. Then follows clear description and analysis of the rules of choice of law on natural and legal persons, contractual and non-contractual obligations, movable and immovable property, intangible property rights, company law, family law (marriage, cohabitation, registered partnerships, matrimonial property, maintenance, child law), and succession law (including testamentary dispositions). The presentation concludes with an overview of relevant civil procedure, examining lex fori and issues of national and international jurisdiction, acceptability and enforcement of foreign judgements, and international arbitration. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for lawyers handling cases in Israel. Academics and researchers, as well as judges, notaries public, marriage registrars, youth welfare officers, teachers, students, and local and public authorities will welcome this very useful guide, and will appreciate its value in the study of private international law from a comparative perspective.

Author : Steven V. Mazie
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739114859

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Israel's Higher Law by Steven V. Mazie Pdf

In Israel's Higher Law, Steven V. Mazie sheds new light on the relationship between liberalism and religion through a detailed assessment of the Jewish state. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Israeli citizens, this compelling work scrutinizes the ways in which Israelis conceptualize and debate their polity's religion-state arrangement.

Author : Gerald Friedlander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Jewish law
ISBN : LCCN:22021022

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Laws and Customs of Israel by Gerald Friedlander Pdf