Boundaries of loyalty : testimony against fellow Jews in non-Jewish courts / Saul J. Berman.

Talmudic legislation prescribed penalty for a Jew to testify in a non-Jewish court, against a fellow Jew, to benefit a gentile - for breach of a duty of loyalty to a fellow Jew. Through close textual analysis, Saul Berman explores how Jewish jurists responded when this virtue of loyalty conflicted w...

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Main Author: Berman, Saul J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316111291
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