Collected Essays
Author | : Haym Soloveitchik |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2014-11-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789627869 |
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In this second volume of his essays on the history of halakhah, Haym Soloveitchik grapples with much-disputed topics in medieval Jewish history, including the roots and culture of Early Ashkenaz and its knowledge of the Babylonian Talmud; martyrdom as perceived and practised by Jews under Islam and Christianity; and the interpretation of Maimonides’ Mishneh torah