David Weiss Halivni, ‘Midrash, Mishnah, and Gemara: The Jewish Predilection for Justified Law’

Originally published in Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, 37:2 (1988). In this book the renowned Talmudic scholar, Professor David Weiss Halivni, offers a wide-ranging thesis, buttressed throughout by the meticulous attention to detail typical of his much admired Sources and Traditions, together with which it will undoubtedly take its place as an…