RT Book T1 Routledge Handbook of Religious Laws. T2 Routledge International Handbooks Ser. A1 Ferrari, Silvio A2 Rossella, Bottoni LA English PP Milton PB Routledge YR 2019 UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1669824799 AB Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: religious laws and their comparison - theoretical and methodological issues -- The nature of religious laws -- Comparative religious law -- Further reading -- Notes -- References -- PART I: History -- Chapter 1: The Jewish tradition: a history -- History -- Jewish -- Law -- The Bible: a covenantal law -- The Second Temple Period: an ethnic law -- Late Antiquity: jurists' imagined law -- The Middle Ages: divine law -- The Modern era: law, religion and identity -- The twentieth century: law, nationalism and politics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Christian tradition: a history -- Origins -- Historical evolution -- Further reading -- References -- Chapter 3: The Islamic tradition: a history -- Origins -- The development of the madhhabs -- The basis for the law -- The law, the scholars and the state -- The modern period -- Reintroduction of 'the Sharīʿa' -- References -- Chapter 4: The Hindu tradition: a history -- Introduction -- Origins of Hindu law -- Historical evolution -- Central characteristics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Comparative remarks: a history of religious laws -- References -- PART II: Sources of law -- Chapter 6: Jewish law: the sources -- Variations of meaning and function -- 'Source' and 'resource' -- The biblical paradigm: strong epiphanism -- Grappling with the biblical model in Late Antiquity -- Judeo-Hellenic parallelism -- Rabbinic ambivalence: the human source celebrated and denied -- Medieval Judaism: traditionalism and human reason -- Perfect transmission -- Reasoning and rationality -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Christian law: the sources -- Various denominations and their legal concepts -- Legislation on the international, national and local level -- Instruments of regulation. NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources SN 9781315518961 K1 Electronic books K1 Aufsatzsammlung