Intention in Talmudic Law

Between Thought and Deed
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-43303-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 65, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism

In Intention in Talmudic Law: Between Thought and Deed, Shana Strauch Schick offers the first comprehensive history of intention in classical Jewish law (1st-6th centuries CE). Through close readings of rabbinic texts and explorations of contemporaneous legal-religious traditions, Strauch Schick constructs an intellectual history that reveals remarkable consistency within the rulings of particular sages, locales, and schools of thought. The book carefully traces developments across generations and among groups of rabbis, uncovering competing lineages of evolving legal and religious thought, and demonstrating how intention gradually became a nuanced, differentially applied concept across a wide array of legal realms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strauch Schick, Shana

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Jüdisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdisches Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction

1 Summary of Findings

2 Previous Scholarship and Methodology

3 Methodological Concerns

4 Historical Context of the Bavli: Hellenistic, Christian, Zoroastrian

5 Outline of Chapters

6 A Note on Gender Pronouns

1 From Tannaitic to Early Amoraic Law: Contrasting Systems of Tort Law in the Yerushalmi and Bavli

1 Overview of Tort Law in Tannaitic Sources

2 M. Bava Qama 2:6: “A Person Is Always Forewarned”

2.1 Yerushalmi: R. Isaac on the Necessity of Fault

2.2 Bavli: Strict Liability

3 M. Bava Qama. 3:1: Exemption for Accidental Damages

3.1 Yerushalmi - Rav, Samuel and R. El’azar: Liability Determined by Fault

3.2 Bavli - Rav, Samuel and R. Yohanan: Strict Liability

3.3 Bavli and Yerushalmi: Identical Traditions, Divergent Rulings

4 Contextualizing Tort Liability in the Yerushalmi

5 Contextualizing Tort Liability in the Bavli

2 The Third Generation of Babylonian Amoraim: A Period of Transition

1 Overview: The Emergence of Competing Schools of Thought in Pumbedita and Mahoza

2 Pumbedita: Negligence and Deliberate Action in the Rulings of Rabbah

2.1 B. Bava Qama 26b-27a: Strict Liability and Negligence

2.2 B. Bava Qama 56a: Liability for Negligence

2.3 B. Bava Qama 28b-29b: Intent to Act

3 Mahoza: Negligence and Purposeful Action

3.1 R. Nahman: Purpose Defines the Prohibition

3.2 Mitasseq and Melakhah She- eina Tzerikha Le-gufa: Exemptions in the Laws of Shabbat

3.3 R. Hisda: Intention in the Fulfillment of Religious Precepts

4 Summary

3 The Fourth Generation of Babylonian Amoraim: A Period of Innovation

1 Overview

2 Pumbedita: Abaye

2.1 Challenge to Rabbah’s Strict Liability

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Über Autor(innen)

Shana Strauch Schick is a Leon Charney fellow at Yeshiva University’s Center for Israel Studies and teaches in the United States and Israel. Her recent articles have appeared in AJS Review and Nashim. She received her Ph.D. in 2011 from Yeshiva University.