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What´s Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives
Christine Hayes
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Hardback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; JFCX; JFSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 246 x 34. Weight in Grams: 746.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691165196
SKU
V9780691165196
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About Christine Hayes
Christine Hayes is the Robert F. and Patricia R. Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica at Yale University. Her books include Introduction to the Bible, The Emergence of Judaism: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective, and Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities: Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud.
Reviews for What´s Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives
Winner of the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award), Jewish Book Council "Hayes's careful examination of ... Read more