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Constructing Justice: The Selective Use of Scripture in Formulating Early Jewish Accounts of the Courts*

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1 Published in 2018 at "Harvard Theological Review"

DOI: 10.1017/s001781601800024x

Abstract: Abstract Elaborate depictions of the court system in Second Temple and rabbinic literature signify its centrality for the Jewish legal tradition. Rather than offering positivistic descriptions, these representations are better thought of as templates of… read more here.

Keywords: justice; early jewish; constructing justice; scripture ... See more keywords