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Abortion in Judaism »

Authors: Daniel Schiff
ISBN-13: 9780521806220, ISBN-10: 0521806224
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

DANIEL SCHIFF is the Jewish Education Institute Community Scholar in Pittsburgh, and Rabbi of B'nai Israel in White Oak, Pennsylvania.

A unique Jewish legal history of abortion from earliest biblical references to the present day.

	Preface
1	The conundrum takes shape: foundational verses	1
2	Evaluating life: rabbinic perspectives on fetal standing	27
3	Divining a prohibition: the positions of the Rishonim and Acharonim	58
4	No clear consensus: the sages of a rising modernity	95
5	The struggle returns: Jewish views begin to take form	133
6	Confronting a new reality: legislation for a Jewish state	207
7	A halakhic challenge: discerning Jewish abortion principles	227
	Glossary	270
	Bibliography	275
	Index	285