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Disability in Jewish law

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Title Disability in Jewish law / Tzvi C. Marx.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 2002
Notes On cover: The Institute of Jewish Law, Boston University School of Law.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic Theological University of Utrecht, 1993. Preface, p. xi.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-254) and indexes.
English
Content chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- chapter 2 MORAL IMPERATIVES GOVERNING DISABILITY -- chapter 3 EXTRA-HALAKHIC SOURCES: BIBLICAL NARRATIVES AND RABBINIC AGGADA -- chapter 4 GUIDELINES FROM CHARITY -- chapter 5 LAWS ON RELATING TO THE DISABLED -- chapter 6 CATEGORIES OF DISABILITY -- chapter 7 ELEMENTAL DIGNITY -- chapter 8 OBSERVANCES RELATED TO LITURGY -- chapter 9 NON-VERBAL OBSERVANCES -- chapter 10 PREPARATORY OBSERVANCES AND TECHNOLOGICAL AIDS -- chapter 11 CONCLUSION.
Series Jewish law in context
v. 3
Extent 1 online resource (xi, 260 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997007800400505171
MARC RECORDS
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