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

Estimate: $150–$200
Hammer price: $200

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author

(ITALY)

printer

Cescini

Place

Padua

Publication

1877

Description

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew in large square characters

summary

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

pp. 54, (2). Ex-library. Light stains. Modern cloth. 8vo

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