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- The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Can We Even Speak of “Judaism and Law”?
- Part I Law as Constitutive of Biblical and Premodern Jewish Religious Expression
- Part II Enlightenment, Emancipation, and the Invention of Jewish “Religion”
- Part III Judaism and the Secular Jewish State
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
Part I - Law as Constitutive of Biblical and Premodern Jewish Religious Expression
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Can We Even Speak of “Judaism and Law”?
- Part I Law as Constitutive of Biblical and Premodern Jewish Religious Expression
- Part II Enlightenment, Emancipation, and the Invention of Jewish “Religion”
- Part III Judaism and the Secular Jewish State
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
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