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The Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah): Book 4, the Book of Women Hardcover - 1972
by Isaac Klein (Translator)
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The fourth book of Maimonides' Code is entitled Sefer Nasim, 'Book of Women, ' and its subject matter corresponds to what is called today family law. In choosing this term, Maimonides followed the Mishnah, where the title Nasim is applied to the Order which deals with family law.
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- Title The Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah): Book 4, the Book of Women
- Author Isaac Klein (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 453
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
- Date September 10, 1972
- ISBN 9780300014389 / 0300014384
- Weight 1.63 lbs (0.74 kg)
- Dimensions 8.84 x 5.96 x 1.45 in (22.45 x 15.14 x 3.68 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 49009495
- Dewey Decimal Code 296.172
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972. one of the Yale Judaica Series, Volume XIX; translated from the Hebrew by Isaac Klein; Leon Nemoy, editor; Saul Lieberman and Harry A. Wolfson, associate editors. 8vo size red clothbound hardcover with dust jacket, bright gilt titles on book spine From jacket: The Book of Women...consists of five treatises dealing with the laws on marriage, divorce, levirate marriage and the virgin maiden, and the wayward women. Many of these regulations are roughly comparable to modern family law. In compiling the treatises, Maimonides augmented the basic stipulations of the Talmud with subsequent legal developments and included laws that had long been inoperative..." Jacket has edgewear, minor chipping at top of spine, a half inch tear to top front of jacket. Heel of spine is bumped underneath jacket; there is a small tacky area on fep where sticker was removed. We noted small, light, penciled check marks in the margins on at least 20 pages. . Cloth.…
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