The civilizational conflict between Rome and Israel in antiquity is much discussed. A new book from Princeton, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel, maintains that the...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2024/09/19/rome-israel-rivals-in-law/
This one is a little outside my wheelhouse, but it looks quite interesting. Hasidic Judaism is known for its ecstatic approach. And yet, ironically, it is also one of Judaism’s most traditional...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2024/06/27/on-law-ritual-in-hasidic-judaism/
When law professors think of law and religion, we’re apt to think of contemporary church-and-state issues: the free exercise and establishment clauses, statutes like RFRA and RLUIPA and other c...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2024/04/04/a-new-collection-on-law-in-the-hebrew-bible/
Here are some important law-and-religion news stories from around the web: The post Around the Web appeared first on LAW AND RELIGION FORUM .
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2023/07/17/around-the-web-388/
One of the great and perennial problems in law is the relationship between “the rules” and the transcendental order (if any) that animates them. This is so in all the Abrahamic religions, whi...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2023/03/09/guiding-the-perplexed/
I recently had a discussion with a student in my comparative law class who had studied Jewish law at a yeshiva. To study Jewish law, this student told me, is to enter a conversation that has been...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2019/02/01/a-new-introduction-to-jewish-law/
Ever since we started this center in 2010, one of our primary areas of focus has been comparative religious jurisprudence. It’s a fascinating subject, and one that draws little attention in the...
Here is an interesting-looking new book from Princeton University Press on the foundational text of Jewish law, The Talmud: A Biography. The author is Northwestern University religious studies pr...
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2018/04/06/wimpfheimer-the-talmud/
In Around the Web: religious slaughter banned in Belgium, Copts under siege, and more. The post Around the Web appeared first on LAW AND RELIGION FORUM .
https://lawandreligionforum.org/2017/07/10/around-the-web-16/
In June, the Oxford University Press will release “Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels: Religious Arbitration in America and the West,” by Michael Broyde (Emory Univers...