Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity - Chaya T. Halberstam

Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity

Counternarratives of Justice
Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-886514-8 (ISBN)
94,75 inkl. MwSt
Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity is the first book to examine what early Jewish courtroom narratives can tell us about the capacity and limits of human justice. Drawing from affect theory and feminist legal thought, Chaya T. Halberstam offers original readings of some of the most famous trials in the ancient Jewish tradition.
What can early Jewish courtroom narratives tell us about the capacity and limits of human justice? By exploring how judges and the act of judging are depicted in these narratives, Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice challenges the prevailing notion, both then and now, of the ideal impartial judge. As a work of intellectual history, the book also contributes to contemporary debates about the role of legal decision-making in shaping a just society. Chaya T. Halberstam shows that instead of modelling a system in which lofty, inaccessible judges follow objective and rational rules, ancient Jewish trial narratives depict a legal practice dependent upon the individual judge's personal relationships, reactive emotions, and impulse to care.

Drawing from affect theory and feminist legal thought, Halberstam offers original readings of some of the most famous trials in ancient Jewish writings alongside minor case stories in Josephus and rabbinic literature. She shows both the consistency of a counter-tradition that sees legal practice as contingent upon relationship and emotion, and the specific ways in which that perspective was manifest in changing times and contexts.

Chaya T. Halberstam is Professor of Religious Studies at King's University College, University of Western Ontario. She works on law and literature in Israelite and Jewish antiquity, specializing in early rabbinic texts. Her research explores the limits of the law and the gestures within legal contexts toward social, emotional, and relational reasoning. Halberstam received her PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. She has previously held fellowships at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and Indiana University.

Introduction
1: The Case for Impartiality
2: The King Who Cares in Daniel 6
3: Feeling our Way to Justice in Susanna
4: The Collapse of Judgment in the Trials of Jesus
5: Dissolving Trials in Josephus)`s Jewish Antiquities
6: Parables of Judgment in Tannaitic Literature
7: Judging within the Rabbinic Household in the Babylonian Talmud
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Bible and the Humanities
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 240 mm
Gewicht 578 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Judentum
Recht / Steuern Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-19-886514-7 / 0198865147
ISBN-13 978-0-19-886514-8 / 9780198865148
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