What's Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives
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 Discours...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ
Princeton University Press
[2015]
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
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Religion And Law
B Jewish Law Philosophy B Jewish Law Interpretation and construction B Religion / Judaism / History B Jewish Law History B Judaism Doctrines |
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| Summary: | 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 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 divine law and shows how early adherents to biblical tradition-Hellenistic Jewish writers such as Philo, the community at Qumran, Paul, and the talmudic rabbis-struggled to make sense of this conflicting legacy.Christine Hayes shows that for the ancient Greeks, divine law was divine by virtue of its inherent qualities of intrinsic rationality, truth, universality, and immutability, while for the biblical authors, divine law was divine because it was grounded in revelation with no presumption of rationality, conformity to truth, universality, or immutability. Hayes describes the collision of these opposing conceptions in the Hellenistic period, and details competing attempts to resolve the resulting cognitive dissonance. She shows how Second Temple and Hellenistic Jewish writers, from the author of 1 Enoch to Philo of Alexandria, were engaged in a common project of bridging the gulf between classical and biblical notions of divine law, while Paul, in his letters to the early Christian church, sought to widen it. Hayes then delves into the literature of classical rabbinic Judaism to reveal how the talmudic rabbis took a third and scandalous path, insisting on a construction of divine law intentionally at odds with the Greco-Roman and Pauline conceptions that would come to dominate the Christianized West.A stunning achievement in intellectual history, What's Divine about Divine Law? sheds critical light on an ancient debate that would shape foundational Western thought, and that continues to inform contemporary views about the nature and purpose of law and the nature and authority of Scripture |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 1400866413 |
| Reference: | Kommentar in "Paul, the Law, and Indigenous People (2017)"
Kommentar in "Paul, Essentialism, and the Jewish Law (2017)" |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9781400866410 |