Early Rabbinic Civil Law
This study focuses on tractate Baba Mesi‘a’ of the Mishnah, which deals primarily with contracts of various kinds. Lapin's book focuses both on the literary traits of the tractate and, more importantly, attempts to tease out some of the implications of the tractate's depiction of social an...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Atlanta, Baltimore, Md.
Scholars Press, Project MUSE
20200000©2020, 2020
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| Edition: | Second edition |
| Series: | Brown judaic studies
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This study focuses on tractate Baba Mesi‘a’ of the Mishnah, which deals primarily with contracts of various kinds. Lapin's book focuses both on the literary traits of the tractate and, more importantly, attempts to tease out some of the implications of the tractate's depiction of social and economic relationships for an understanding of the history of later Roman Palestine |
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| Physical Description: | x, 378 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781946527554 9781946527578 |