What's Divine about Divine Law? : Early Perspectives /

In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine confronted one another with a force that reverberates to the present. What's Divine about Divine Law? untangles the classical and biblical roots of the Western idea of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hayes, Christine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Edición:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Temas:
Jewish law > History.
Jewish law > Interpretation and construction.
Jewish law > Philosophy.
Judaism > Doctrines.
Religion and law.
RELIGION / Judaism / History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Biblical and Greco- Roman Discourses of Divine Law
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Biblical Discourses of Law
  • Chapter 2. Greco- Roman Discourses of Law
  • PART II. Mosaic Law in the Light of Greco- Roman Discourses of Law to the End of the First Century CE
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 3. Bridging the Gap: Divine Law in Hellenistic and Second Temple Jewish Sources
  • Chapter 4. Minding the Gap: Paul
  • Part III. The Rabbinic Construction of Divine Law
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 5. The "Truth" about Torah
  • Chapter 6. The (Ir)rationality of Torah
  • Chapter 7. The Flexibility of Torah
  • Chapter 8. Natural Law in Rabbinic Sources?
  • Writing the Next Chapters
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Primary Sources
  • General Index

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