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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hayes, Christine Elizabeth (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford [England] : Princeton University Press, 2015.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Biblical discourses of divine law
  • Greco-Roman discourses of law
  • Bridging the gap: divine law in Hellenistic and Second temple Jewish sources
  • Minding the gap: Paul
  • The "truth" about Torah
  • The (ir)rationality of Torah
  • The flexibility of Torah
  • Natural law in Rabbinic sources?