Lecturers Page Prof. Joseph David

    
    
      
    
    
    
    
    
	
     
  
  


    

        
Prof. Joseph David

        

            



        

        

           
             

            
            
Joseph E. David is an Associate Professor of Law at Sapir Academic College in Israel. His research focuses on Law and Religion, Legal History, Comparative Law, and Jurisprudence.
He is the author of The State Rabbinate: Election, Separation and Freedom of Expression (2000), The Family and the Political: On Belonging and Responsibility in a Liberal Society (2012), Toleration within Judaism (2013), Jurisprudence and Theology in Late Ancient and Medieval Jewish Thought (2014) and Kinship, Law and Politics: An Anatomy of Belonging (forthcoming). He edited The State of Israel: Between Judaism and Democracy (2000), Questioning Dignity: Human Dignity as Supreme Modern Value (2006), Nomos and Narrative for the Hebrew Reader (2012), The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought (2014).
Joseph has held academic positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, New York University, The University of Oxford, the Hebrew University, The Interdisciplinary Centre Herzliya, The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and The University of Yale (Yale Law School and the Program in Judaic Studies)