Hanina Ben-Menahem

Hanina Ben-Menahem (* around 1945) is a former Israeli professor of Jewish law ( Halacha ) at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem .

Life

He studied law at the Hebrew University and was admitted to the bar in 1970. In 1978 he received his doctorate from Oxford . Since 1978 he has been teaching law at the Hebrew University. In 1987/1988 he was visiting professor at Stanford and in 1995 at Harvard Law School . From 1995 to 2000 he headed the Institute for Jewish Law at the Hebrew University.

In his writings, he points to the diverse and sometimes contradicting traditions of Jewish law. He advocates a tolerant understanding of the law.

Works (selection)

• Towards a jurisprudential analysis of the "kim li" argument in: Shenaton Hamishpat ha-Ivri , 6/7, 1979/80
• Is there always one uniquely correct answer to a legal question in the Talmud? , in: Jewish Law Annual 6, 1987, pp. 169-173
• Judicial deviation in Talmudic law , 1991
• with NS Hecht (Ed.): Authority, Process and Method: studies in Jewish law , 1998
• with NS Hecht, u. a. (Ed.): Postscript: the judicial process and the nature of Jewish law , in: An introduction to the history and sources of Jewish law , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996
• Maimonides on equity: reconsidering the Guide for the Perplexted III: 34 in: Journal of Law and Religion , XVII, 1/2, 2002, pp. 19-48.

Web links

• Brief curriculum vitae at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem