Rabbi Dr. Daniel Roth is the Director of Mosaica -The Religious Peace Initiative, which engages religious leaders in mediation, conflict resolution, and religious peacebuilding and is a lecturer of religion and conflict resolution at Bar-Ilan University's Conflict Resolution, Management and Negotiation Graduate Program in Israel. Roth was the founder and director of the Pardes Center for Judaism and Conflict Resolution and the Mahloket Matters Project.

• Introduction Chapter 1 - From Muhammad to Sulha: Religious and Traditional Cultural Models of Third-Party PeacemakingChapter 2 - Judaism's Paradigmatic Third-Party Peacemaker: Legends of Aaron, the Pursuer of Peace, in Classical Rabbinic Literature Chapter 3 - From Rabbi Meir to the Simple Jesters: Legends of Third-Party Peacemakers in Classical Rabbinic LiteratureChapter 4 - From Rabbi Yosef Syracusty to Rabbi Nissi al-Nahrawani: Historical Accounts and Stories of Third-party Rabbinic Peacemakers in Medieval and Early-Modern Rabbinic LiteratureChapter 5 - Rodfei Shalom, Metavkhei Shalom, Pashranim, and Nikhbadim: Historical Accounts and Stories of Third-Party Lay Peacemakers in Medieval and Early-Modern Rabbinic LiteratureConclusion: The Text, Theory, Practice, and Scope of Third-Party Peacemakers in JudaismBibliography

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