Masekhet Sanhedrin I

Catalog description

This course in Advanced Talmud will focus on the objectives of capital punishment within the Jewish judicial system and the role that the Sanhedrin, the Jewish courts, play in administering such punishments. Students will be challenged to explore the religious and moral underpinnings as well as the license that entitles a human judicial court to terminate the life of another. What are the necessary conditions that entitle a human court to take the life of a member of society, and what is the goal in doing so?