9. Can “Law” Be Private? The Mixed Message of Rabbinic Oral Law

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Family, the Community and Murder: The Role of Pollution in Athenian Homicide Law 11
6. 2. Public and Private in Classical Athenian Legal Enforcement 37
7. 3. φανερὰν ποιήσει τὴν αὑτοῦ διάνοιαν τοῖς θεοῖς: Some Ancient Greek Theories of (Divine and Mortal) Mind 53
8. 4. Ista tua pulchra libertas: The Construction of a Private Cult of Liberty on the Palatine 75
9. 5. “M. Tullius … aedem Fortunae August (ae) solo et peq(unia) sua” 99
10. 6. Making the Private Public: Illegitimacy and Incest in Roman Law 115
11. 7. Public and Private in Emergent Christian Discourse 143
12. 8. Staging “private” religion in Roman “public” Palmyra. The role of the religious dining tickets (banqueting tesserae) 165
13. 9. Can “Law” Be Private? The Mixed Message of Rabbinic Oral Law 187
14. 10. Between Public and Private: The Significance of the Neutral Domain (Carmelit) in Late Antique Rabbinic Literature 217
15. 11. Shame, Sin, and Virtue: Islamic Notions of Privacy 237
16. Contributors 251
17. Index 253