The Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah): Book 4, the Book of Women

by Maimonides

From the point of view of method and organization, the Code of Maimonides, written in the twelfth century, is still considered one of the great codes in the history of jurisprudence. The Book of Women , the fourth book in the Code, consists of five treatises dealing with the laws on marriage, divorce, levirate marriage, and Halishah , the virgin maiden, and the wayward woman. Many of these regulations are roughly comparable to modern family law. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300014384
• ISBN13: 9780300014389
• Release Date: September 1972
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 453 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 8.8"