David C. Flatto is Professor of Law and Jewish philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His most recent book is The Crown and the Courts: Separation of Powers in the Early Imagination (Harvard University Press, 2020). Benjamin Porat is Professor of Law, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law, and the Director of the Matz Institute for Research in Jewish Law, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Principles of Welfare Regulations: From Biblical Law to Rabbinic Literature (2019).
'Too often, debates and doctrines about 'law' and 'religion' presume that these are sharply distinct, entirely separate practices or ideas. This volume enriches and deepens our understandings and conversations by reminding us that legal and theological reasoning are often analogous and complementary, that religious and political institutions regularly and appropriately cooperate, and that legal and religious beliefs and practices are profoundly shaped by each other.' Richard W. Garnett, Professor of Law, Director, Notre Dame Program on Church, State & Society, Concurrent Professor of Political Science, Notre Dame Law School