RAB 513 Sanhedrin
We will study chapter 6 of tractate Sanhedrin in the Talmud Bavli. Our approaches to the text will include study of selected rishonim (principally Tosafot and Me'iri), as well as contemporary critical methods. We will also give some attention to contemporary Jewish engagement with capital punishment, and to uses—appropriate and otherwise—of Talmudic material in making arguments for and against capital punishment.