Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

9/1/1975 - 9/30/1976

Funding Totals

$20,000.00 (approved)
$20,000.00 (awarded)


The Halakhah (Law) in the Apocryphal Literature

FAIN: FA-11032-75

Sidney B. Hoenig
Yeshiva University (New York, NY 10033-3201)

To study the juridical content or Halakhah in the Apocryphal literature of the period of the Second Commonwealth. These readings will he compared and contrasted with parallel items in Philo, Josephus, the Gospels and tannaitic literature. Such a project will be useful in understanding the development of laws and customs in the First Century.