Catherine Hezser and Constantin Willems introduce the AHRC-DFG Collaborative UK-German Research Project in the Humanities (2023-26) on Rabbinic Civil Law in the Context of Ancient Legal History.Excerpt:
The ultimate goal of our project is to integrate the study of rabbinic law into ancient legal history, to break the traditional boundaries between academic legal studies’ predominant focus on western (Greek and Roman) legal traditions while rabbinic law is delegated to Religions departments. Everyone studying and researching ancient legal history should be invited and encouraged to take rabbinic private law (from antiquity to modernity) into account. ...
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