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The Living Tree: The Roots and Growth of Jewish Law. Edited by Elliot N. Dorff and Arthur Rosett. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. Pp. 602. $59.50. ISBN: 0-88706-459-0. Paper: $19.95. ISBN: 0-88706-460-4.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Ben Zion Bergman
Ben Zion Bergman*
Affiliation:
The University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA 90077
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , 1989 , pp. 235 - 238
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 1989

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References

1. Scholars who have explored this distinction fruitfully include Moshe Silberg, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, who wrote a seminal article on this theme, Law and Morals in Jewish Jurisprudence, 75 Harv. L. Rev. 306 (1961)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Robert Cover, the distinguished Yale Law School professor in whose memory this issue of this journal is dedicated, Obligation: A Jewish Jurisprudence of the Social Order, 5 J. Law & Relig 65 (1987)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. I have also written on this point. Bergman, , Torah and Torts, 4 J. Law & Relig 173 (1986)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2. Baba Bathra 22a.

3. Id. 2b, 5a.