Essays on Law and Religion The Berkeley and Oxford Symposia in Honour of David Daube

The essays contained in this volume comprise the text of the speeches that were given at the University of California at Berkeley & Oxford University, England, on the occasion of David Daube's eightieth birthday. The colleagues & former pupils who paid tribute to Daube were Professors Michael Smith, James Gorley, David Cohen, Calum Carmichael, Bernard Jackson, Alan Watson & Peter Stein. These essays, edited by Calum Carmichael, a noted biblical law scholar, Professor of Comparative Literature & Biblical Studies at Cornell University, & Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, are testament to the originality & inestimable significance of Daube's scholarship, his warmth, wit, & great humanity, & to the profound esteem & affection in which he is held.Carmichael, Calum is the author of 'Essays on Law and Religion The Berkeley and Oxford Symposia in Honour of David Daube' with ISBN 9781882239023 and ISBN 1882239024.