The Trial and Death of Jesus - Hardcover

Haim Cohn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568525028 ISBN 13: 9781568525020

Publisher: Konecky & Konecky, 2000

Synopsis

Haim Cohn, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, and a scholar of Jewish legal history , offers a profound and respectful engagement of the Gospel narrative of the trail and death of Jesus. Using information we possess from various scholarly sources concerning the law and procedures (both Jewish and Roman) pertaining at the time, Justice Cohn presents a searching forensic and historical analysis to create a legal, political and religious context of the events as they may really have happened.

About this title

About the Author:

Mr. Justice Haim H. Cohn was born in Luebeck, Germany, in 1911. In 1930 he came to Palestine and took up rabbinical studies at the Yeshivat Merkaz Harav as well as Judaistic studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Upon the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 he was appointed State Attorney and shortly thereafter Director-General of the Ministry of Justice. In 1950 he was made the Attorney-General of Israel. In 1952 he joined the Cabinet as Minister of Justice and in 1953 resumed the attorney-generalship until his appointment in 1960 as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel. Mr. Justice Cohn represented the State of Israel on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. He also served on the Board of Governors of the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Hebrew (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Konecky & Konecky
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1568525028
• ISBN 13: 9781568525020
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 419