Publication Date

2019

Journal

Villanova Law Review

Abstract

The article reviews Chaim Saiman's Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law, highlighting its contribution to understanding rabbinic law as a cultural and educational force. Saiman's work bridges legal and cultural scholarship by emphasizing halakhah's dual role as both regulatory and expressive, drawing on Robert Cover's paideic model of law and Lawrence Rosen's concept of law as cosmology. The book explores how Talmudic discourse embodies this duality, blending legal reasoning with moral, theological, and ethical inquiry, and examines the tension between maintaining religious meaning and legal detail.

Volume

64

Issue

5

First Page

781

Last Page

786

Publisher

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

Disciplines

Comparative and Foreign Law | Law

Comments

Norman J. Shachoy Symposium: The Rabbinic Idea of Law: Interactions and Implications

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