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Disqualified Witnesses Between Tannaitic Halakha and Roman Law: A Response to Orit Malka

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2019

Abstract

This short piece is designed to be a response to the article by Orit Malka.

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Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 2019 

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