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9780195179194
Beth Berkowitz explores modern scholarship on the ancient Rabbinic death penalty and offers a fresh perspective using the approaches of ritual studies, cultural criticism and Talmudic source criticism. She argues that the death penalty was used by the early Rabbis in an attempt to assert their authority.Berkowitz, Beth A. is the author of 'Execution And Invention Death Penalty Discourse In Early Rabbinic And Christian Cultures', published 2006 under ISBN 9780195179194 and ISBN 0195179196.
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