Reviews for Marital relations, birth control, and abortion in Jewish law

The average rating for Marital relations, birth control, and abortion in Jewish law based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-03-31 00:00:00 Rico Papi I read some sections from this not the whole book. It is full of good examples of the convoluted thinking of Jewish law, and how by piling up the teachings of men they can get very far from what the Old Testament actually says. He compares the Jewish historical doctrines with what the church taught at the same time, which made for some interesting contrasts (not always in the church's favor)

Review # 2 was written on 2014-06-08 00:00:00 Andrew Ibell A challenging + insightful exploration of morality, criminal law, and the limits of freedom with equally as insightful critiques of John Stuart Mill, James Fitzjames Stephen, and Lord Patrick Devlin. Woohoo! “The real solvent of social morality, as one critic of Lord Devlin has pointed out, is not the failure of the law to endorse its restrictions with legal punishment, but free critical discussion. It is this—or the self-criticism which it engenders—that forces apart mere instinctive disgust from moral condemnation.”