This book examines the emergence of self-knowledge as a determining
legal consideration among the rabbis of Late Antiquity, from the
third to the seventh centuries CE. Based on close readings of
rabbinic texts from Palestine and Babylonia, Ayelet Hoffmann Libson
highlights a unique and surprising development in Talmudic
jurisprudence, whereby legal decision-making incorporated personal
and subjective information. She examines the central legal role
accorded to individuals' knowledge of their bodies and mental
states in areas of law as diverse as purity laws, family law and
the laws of Sabbath. By focusing on subjectivity and
self-reflection, the Babylonian rabbis transformed earlier legal
practices in a way that cohered with the cultural concerns of other
religious groups in Late Antiquity. They developed sophisticated
ideas about the inner self and incorporated these notions into
their distinctive discourse of law.
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