Isaac Baruch Halevi. Chikur Din [on Capital Punishment in Talmudic Law]

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Lot 149

(ITALY)

Isaac Baruch Halevi. Chikur Din [on Capital Punishment in Talmudic Law]

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew in large square characters pp. 54, (2). Ex-library. Light stains. Modern cloth. 8vo

Padua: Cescini 1877

Est: $150 - $200

PRICE REALIZED $200

Sympathetic to the movement to abolish capital punishment in Italy, Halevi shows how Jewish Law, though indeed providing for capital punishment, was so demanding in terms of testimony, that on the practical level, capital punishment was almost never administered