Capital punishment among the Jews (Registro nro. 118422)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | DS |
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pool, David de Sola, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1885-1970 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Capital punishment among the Jews |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-01-16 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | deaurider, PrimeNumber and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Capital punishment among the Jews by David de Sola Pool is a scholarly historical-legal study written in the early 20th century. It examines how Jewish law defined, applied, modified, and ultimately curtailed capital punishment across the Biblical, Second Temple, rabbinic, and medieval periods, with special attention to legal procedures and moral reasoning.<br/><br/>The book first reviews the four rabbinically recognized executions—stoning, burning, beheading, and strangulation—showing how the Rabbis humanized them (e.g., stoning recast as precipitation; burning reduced to strangulation with a token cautery; beheading done by sword at the throat; strangulation preferred for least disfigurement). It then outlines the Bible’s purposes for the death penalty—retribution, deterrence, and expiation—while noting rabbinic efforts to preserve life and dignity. Most of the study traces the dense legal safeguards that made execution virtually unattainable: two unimpeachable witnesses who issued a precise prior warning, rejection of circumstantial evidence, exacting cross-examination, numerous disqualifications, and stringent court rules (a 23-judge panel, delays, supermajorities, broad avenues for appeal, and a general tilt toward acquittal). Offenses marked for “kareth” were left to divine judgment, further narrowing human jurisdiction. Under Roman rule, Jewish courts lost capital power after the Temple’s destruction; thereafter discussions became largely theoretical, with only rare, exceptional acts tolerated by authorities. In the medieval diaspora, Jewish courts seldom held capital authority, though in parts of Spain and North Africa they sometimes condemned dangerous informers, typically handing them to state executioners. Overall, the work shows a tradition that upheld the death penalty in principle but, through legal refinement, rendered it practically inoperative. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1916 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Capital punishment (Jewish law) |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/capitalpunishmen00pooliala">https://archive.org/details/capitalpunishmen00pooliala</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77702">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77702</a> |
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