The Talmudic argument : a study in Talmudic reasoning and methodology / Louis Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobs, Louis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Talmud--Hermeneutics.

Talmud.

Hermeneutics.

Jewish law--Interpretation and construction.

Jewish law.

Physical Description:

xvi, 220 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Contents:

The Talmudic argument

The literary form of the Babylonian Talmud

Bererah: retrospective specification

Yeúsh she-lo mida'at: unconscious abandonment of property

Rubba: probability

Davar she-lo ba le'olam: conveyance of a thing not yet in existence

Kol she-eyno be-zeh ahar zeh afilu be-vat ahat eyno: whatever cannot be established in a consecutive sequence cannot be established even in a simultaneous sequence

Yesh horesh telem ehad: a single act of ploughing can result in a number of penalties

Simanin de-oraita o de-rabbanan: whether reliance on distinguishing marks for the purpose of identification is biblical or rabbinic

Devarim she-be-lev eynam devarim: mental reservations in contracts are disregarded

Hazakah: presumptive state

Gadol kevod ha-beriot: the law and regard for human dignity

Hazmanah milta: whether the designation of an object for a particular use is effective

Mitzvat 'aseh she-ha-zeman geramah: positive precepts dependent on time from which women are exempt

Heyzek she-eyno nikar: indiscernible damage to property

Kinyan hatzer: acquisition by means of a domain

Palginan be-dibbura: admission of part of a testimony even though another part of the same testimony is rejected

Tadir u-mekuddash: which take precedence: the more constant or the more sacred?

Palga nizka: the nature of the payment of half-damages to which the owner of a goring ox is liable

Patur mi-diney adam ve-hayyav be-diney shamayim: cases where there is a liability in the eyes of God even though the human courts cannot enforce payment

Mahal 'al kevodo kevodo mahul: renunciation of honour by one to whom it is due.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-220).

Local Notes:

Acc.# 11010

ISBN:

0521263700

9780521263702

0521269482

9780521269483

OCLC:

10505841

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