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“Greeters of the Law”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2019

Yonatan Y. Brafman
Yonatan Y. Brafman*
Affiliation:
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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email: yobrafman@jtsa.edu
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 112 , Issue 3 , July 2019 , pp. 407 - 417
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© President and Fellows of Harvard College 2019 

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Footnotes

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Chaim N. Saiman, Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018) 320 pp., $29.95 hb, ISBN 9780691184364. Page references appear in parentheses within the text.

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1 Kafka’s parable was originally published in 1915 in Selbstwehr, a Jewish weekly, and appears in several iterations. This translation is from the version embedded in Franz, Kafka, The Trial (trans. Willa, and Edwin, Muir; New York: Vintage Books, 1969) 213–15Google Scholar.

2 For a review of interpretations with a focus on the place of Judaism in them, see Vivian, Liska, “‘Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper. To This Doorkeeper Comes a Man...’: Kafka, Narrative, and the Law,” Naharaim 6.2 (2012) 175–94Google Scholar.

3 Joseph, B. Soloveitchik, Halakhic Man (trans. Lawrence, Kaplan; Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1983) 137Google Scholar.

4 Ibid., 19–20.

5 Ibid., 24.

6 Eliezer, Berkovits, Not in Heaven: The Nature and Function of Halakha (New York: Ktav, 1983) 71Google Scholar.

7 Ibid., 81.

8 Robert, M. Cover, “Nomos and Narrative,” Harvard Law Review 97 (1983) 11–19Google Scholar.

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12 Ibid., 90, page numbers taken from the reprinted edition.

13 Ibid., 52.

14 Christine, Hayes, What’s Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017Google Scholar); The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law (ed. Christine Hayes; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017). Full Disclosure: I am a contributor to the latter volume.

15 Richard, Rorty, “Religion as Conversation-Stopper,” Common Knowledge 3.1 (1994) 1–6Google Scholar.

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17 Cover, “Nomos and Narrative,” 44–60.

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20 Ross, Expanding the Palace of Torah, 145–83.