'As a reference book supplying information about specific aspects of Jewish law after the return from the exile, this is a learned and valuable work.'
Daniel J. Harrington, S.J., The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1973.
'Comparative historians of law will find the work as handy as it is authoritative.'
J. Duncan M. Derrett, JRAS, 1974.
'...will be prized by theologians on several counts.'
J. Duncan M. Derrett, Journal of Theological Studies, 1980.