Collaboration with Tyranny in Rabbinic Law : The Riddell Memorial Lectures, Thirty-seventh Series, Delivered at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne on 9, 10, and 11 November 1965
(Daube, David. Studies in Biblical Law. Cambridge: At the ...)
Daube, David. Studies in Biblical Law. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1947. viii, 328 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-431-2. Cloth.
* Daube 1909-1999, a formidably learned scholar who held doctorates in biblical law and Roman law, was Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge and a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. An orthodox Jew, he received a thorough education in Hebrew, Aramaic and Talmudic law. This book collects five of his more important essays: "Law in the Narratives," "Codes and Codas," "Lex Talionis," "Communal Responsibility" and "Summum Ius-Summa Iniuria."
David Daube was the twentieth century's preeminent scholar of ancient law. He combined a familiarity with many legal systems, particularly Roman law and biblical law, with an expertise in Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian literature, and used literary, religious, and legal texts to illuminate each other.
Background
David Daube was born on February 8, 1909 in Freiburg-im-Breisgau, Germany. He was the son of Jakob Daube of Freiburg (whose family probably migrated generations earlier from France), and Selma Ascher of Nördlingen, whose family descends directly from Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, the Maharam.
Education
David Daube studied at the Berthold-Gymnasium, Freiburg. He continued his study at the Gottingen University and received his Ph.D and Dr. Jur. He became honorary Doctor of Laws in Edinburgh, Doctor honoris causa (honorary) in Paris and Munich. He was a student in Leicester, Cambridge and Aberdeen. He studied at Hebrew Union College and Graduate Theological Union Berkeley where he received the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary).
He worked as a Lecturer in Law in Cambridge and then Daube was a professor of Jurisprudence in Aberdeen in 1951-1955. Also he was a Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford) and Fellow of All Souls College 1955-1974, Emeritus Regis Professor in 1970. In 1962 he became a Fellow at the Yale University and Gifford Lecturer in Edinburgh, Olaos Petrie lecturer at Uppsala University in 1963. Then he was a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a honorary professor of History in Konstanz.