Daniel Reifman
Biographic Data
| ID | 2832364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Reifman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Reifman |
| SIGNATURE | REIFMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Law As Religion, Religion As Law
Semiotics and the Nature of Rabbinic Legal Discourse
Semiotic theory provides a powerful set of tools for analyzing rabbinic legal reasoning. Following Saussure's distinction between the two axes of a sign's meaning, value and signification, I posit that any casuistic law acquires meaning from two distinct elements of legal discourse. The first element is analogical reasoning, that is, the comparison between casuistic laws, which is the type of sense construction implicitly reflected in the organiz…
Reconceptualizing the Role of Morality in Halacha Based on the Lichtenstein–borowitz Debate
Within the past two years, the Jewish world has mourned the passing of two of the most influential Jewish theologians of our generation: Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a leading student and son-in-law of R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and Rabbi Eugene Borowitz, a longtime faculty member at the Hebrew Union College and one of the most influential scholars in the American Reform Movement. Then as now, there were …
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Reconceptualizing the Role of Morality in Halacha Based on the Lichtenstein–borowitz Debate
Within the past two years, the Jewish world has mourned the passing of two of the most influential Jewish theologians of our generation: Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a leading student and son-in-law of R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and Rabbi Eugene Borowitz, a longtime faculty member at the Hebrew Union College and one of the most influential scholars in the American Reform Movement. Then as now, there were …
Semiotics and the Nature of Rabbinic Legal Discourse
Semiotic theory provides a powerful set of tools for analyzing rabbinic legal reasoning. Following Saussure's distinction between the two axes of a sign's meaning, value and signification, I posit that any casuistic law acquires meaning from two distinct elements of legal discourse. The first element is analogical reasoning, that is, the comparison between casuistic laws, which is the type of sense construction implicitly reflected in the organiz…
Law As Religion, Religion As Law
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Adjudication (1 work) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Analogical reasoning (1 work) · Analogy (1 work) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (1 work) · Black letter law (1 work)