By Amit Gvaryahu
JOSHUA BERMAN, CREATED EQUAL: HOW THE BIBLE BROKE WITH ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGHT is reviewed by Diana Muir Appelbaum in Jewish Ideas Daily: America the Biblical. An excerpt from the review:
What is interesting about these laws is that they carefully describe a social and economic system calculated to produce a broad middle [...]
The Jewish Law Association in conjunction with the Yale University Program in Judaic Studies will hold the 17th International conference of the JLA at the Yale University Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A., on July 30-August 2, 2012.
The Conference will include a thematic stream on Interaction of Jewish and Other Legal Systems (from ancient to [...]
The Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary is offering an exciting summer course titled Polemos/Pulmus: Ways of Confrontation in Judaism, Paganism and Christianity in Late Antiquity which take place July 9-20, 2012.
CEUs summer school invites applications from doctoral students, postdocs, junior faculty and researchers from all over the world. The [...]
An interesting CFP:
Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society invites papers that deal with the intersection between Islamic law and society particularly as it pertains to such issues as: the status of women and/or family law, property rights, land tenure, criminal law, finance/economy, and inter-faith relations. Papers from [...]