Water in the jewish legal tradition

The Evolution of the Law and Politics of Water

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 53-66

  Laster, Richard ^a   Aronovsky, Rabbi David ^b   Livney, Dan ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Hatorah v'Hamedina Institute   (Israel)

^c Laster and Gouldman Law Offices ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environment; Jewish law; Talmud; Torah; water law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892329744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9867-3_4     Document Type: Chapter

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