Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction VII
4. I What is Jewish Law
5. Is the Talmud Law? 1
6. Jewish Law as a “Non-Evident” Rational Tradition 35
7. A Skeptic in the Courtroom: Jewish Law Faces the Structural Limits of Knowledge 59
8. II How to Study Jewish Law
9. Jewish Legal Pluralism: A Historical Approach 85
10. Responsa and the Rabbinic Republic of Letters 121
11. Ritualizing Law, Legalizing Ritual 149
12. The Literary Artistry of Jewish Law 169
13. III Why Jewish Law
14. Hasidism and Jewish Law: Rabbi Levi Yitzḥak of Berdyczów 189
15. Reconsidering “Law” and “Halakhah” in Modern Jewish Thought 215
16. The Gender of Jewish Law 245
17. Judaism, Jewish Law, and the Universal 255
18. Index 281