Towards a Jewish Theology of Secular Law

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction: Law beyond Sovereignty 1
4. I. Diaspora
5. An Exile of the Soul: A Theological Examination of Jewish Understandings of Diaspora 13
6. Diaspomenos: Hermeneutics of Exile 37
7. II. Traditions of Plurality
8. Law without Nation? The Ongoing Jewish Discussion 51
9. Dina de-malkhuta dina and Talmudic Divorce Law: A Challenge for Rabbinic Law in Diaspora 83
10. The Transformation of Sharia from a Law-Centered Understanding to Ethics: An Overview 99
11. III. Law and Religion
12. Der Wandel von einem personalen zu einem territorialen Rechtsverständnis in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit 119
13. Towards a Jewish Theology of Secular Law 135
14. IV. Legal Pluralism in Concrete Action
15. Halacha and Medical Law at the End of Life 151
16. “He was lain to rest in the Darkening of the Tides …”: Death and Burial in the Field of Tension between Competing Laws in Latin America 171
17. V. Law and Literature in the Diaspora
18. Law and Literature in Diaspora: Gandhi’s Autobiography 191
19. Star Trek: Diaspora and Law in the German-Jewish Imagination 205
20. About the Authors 219
21. Index 223