Tractates Sanhedrin, Makkot, and Horaiot

by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer

Book Overview

Volume 12 in the edition of the complete Jerusalem Talmud. Tractates Sanhedrin and Makkot belong together as one tractate, covering procedural law for panels of arbitration, communal rabbinic courts (in bare outline) and an elaborate construction of hypothetical criminal courts supposedly independent of the king's administration. Tractate Horaiot, an elaboration of Lev. 4:1-26, defines the roles of High Priest, rabbinate, and prince in a Commonwealth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311068070X
• ISBN13: 9783110680706
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 634 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary