This book is an English translation of Albeck's important work, which first appeared in Hebrew in 1999, published by Bar-Ilan University Press.

This book presents the reasons and purposes behind marriage and family law in the Talmud and the controversies regarding them, thereby providing the reader with an organized, systematic summary of the Talmudic laws on these subjects which have no apparent

These articles were written by a wide range of scholars in the fields of Jewish Law and the history of Halakhah, and deal with a variety of aspects of the judicial process in Jewish Law throughout different periods. Based on lectures delivered at a confer

This is the original Hebrew edition of the title Conversion: Halakhah and Practice (for details see entry for this title).

A collection of studies on Jewish law and Halakhah dealing with essential aspects of the law regarding subjects such as debt obligation of inheritance, death penalty for Noahides, laws of matrimony, and with halakhic issues from an historical and philosop

A systematic explanation of the basic principles of talmudic criminal law and the theory according to which transgressors and transgressions of the law are judged. Purpose and intention, compulsion and mistake, inadvertence and recklessness, negligence an

An analysis of the principles and an explanation of the reasons behind talmudic private law, such as the status of gentile aliens and slaves, law of contract, agency, inheritance and wills, law and ethics and similar topics.

This book sets out to analyse the working of the judiciary during the period of the Mishna and Talmud, revealing the functions of the judges, the basis of their authority, their courts and their place in the legislative process.

Explains principles underlying evidence in talmudic law and their influence on contemporary issues.

The eleven studies in this book cover a whole range of acute problems in current legislation and Jewish law today, including jurisprudence, laws of contract, family law and torts. Dr. Z. Warhaftig, recipient of the ''Israel Prize'', having been the chairm