Volume IV

Part I – The Wife's Right to Divorce

B.S Jackson, Introduction

3

E. Lipinski, The Wife's Right to Divorce in the Light of an Ancient Near Eastern Tradition

9

Yair Zakovitch, The Woman's Rights in the Biblical Law of Divorce

28

Evald Lovestam, Divorce and Remarriage in the New Testament

47

Daniela Piattelli, The Marriage Contract and Bill of Divorce in Ancient Hebrew law

66

Alfredo Mordechai Rabello, Divorce of Jews in the Roman Empire

79

Mordechai A. Friedman, Divorce upon the wife's demand as reflected in Mnuscripts from the Cairo Geniza

103

Shmuel Shilo, Impotence as a ground for divorce (to the End of the Period of the Rishonim)

127

Mark Washofsky, The Recalcitrant Husband: The Problem of Definition

144

J. David Bleich, Modern-Day Agunot: A Proposed Remedy

167

David Novak, Annulment in Lieu of Divorce in Jewish Law

188

M. Chigier, Ruminations over the Agunah Problem

207

David Pearl, The Wife's Right to Divorce in Muslim Law

226

J. Duncan M. Derrett, Divorce at the Petition of the Wife at Hindu Law

232

Bernard J. Meislin, Pursuit of the Wife's Right to a "Get" in United States and Canadian Courts

250

Stern v. Stern, Judgment of Gerald S. Held, J.S.C.

272

M.D.A Freeman, Jews and the Law of Divorce in England

276

 

Part II

Survey of Recent Literature

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