How Jewish is Jewish Family Law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4008296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernard S Jackson (University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 201-229 |
| Publication date | 2004-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Jewish Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2097 • E-ISSN: 2056-6689 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.18647/2550/jjs-2004 |
| OpenAlex | W1773565508 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
The Paradox I wish to consider a paradox.Family law is often regarded as particularly resistant to change.In Judaism, as elsewhere, family values are considered as at the very core of the culture's ethics.In technical terms, the halakhah views family law not as part of civil law, along with contract and tort, but as a category apart, much of it classified as issur veheter rather than mamona.Yet despite that, the history of Jewish family law has been one of recurrent, and often radical, change.Moreover, that change has often, as I shall argue in this paper, been influenced by the non-Jewish cultural environment.Indeed, in a recent book, Michael Satlow claimed: 1 It is, indeed, a central assertion of this book that in antiquity there was no single concept of 'Jewish marriage': Jews understood marriage, and married, much like their non-Jewish neighbours.On a local level, Jews did attempt to 'Judaise' their marriages, flavouring their local understandings and customs in order to make them seem Jewish
Archaeology · Judaism · Political science · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Evolving Legal Systems and Governance · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2019 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |