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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Main Author: Hayes, Christine (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Princeton Princeton University Press 2015
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Reviews:What’s Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives (2019) (Rüterswörden, Udo, 1953 -)
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505 8 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; What's So Divine about Divine Law?; Part I-Two Conceptions of Divine Law; Parts II and III-Three Responses; Part II-Mosaic Law in the Light of Greco-Roman Discourses of Law: Ancient Jewish Responses to the End of the First Century CE; Part III-The Rabbinic Construction of Divine Law; Part I Biblical and Greco-Roman Discourses of Divine Law; Introduction; 1 Biblical Discourses of Divine Law; Introduction; Discourses of the Law; Discourse 1: Divine Law as an Expression of Divine Will 
505 8 0 |a Discourse 2: Divine Law as an Expression of Divine ReasonDiscourse 3: Divine Law and Historical Narrative; The Multidimensionality of Biblical Divine Law; 2 Greco-Roman Discourses of Law; Discourses of Natural Law; Discourse 1: Natural Law and Truth-Logos and Realism; Discourse 2: Natural Law and Cosmopolitanism; Discourses of Human Positive Law; Discourse 3: Law and Virtue-the Inadequacy of Positive Law; Discourse 4: The Flexible, Unwritten, "Living Law" vs. the Inflexible, Written, "Dead Letter"; Discourse 5: The Opposition of Phusis and Nomos?; Discourse 6: Positive Law in Need of a Savior 
505 8 0 |a Discourse 7: In Praise of Written Law-the Mark of the Free, Civilized ManAdditional Literary and Legal Practices: The Juxtaposition of Divine and Human Law; (8) Divine Law as a Standard for the Evaluation of Human Law; (9) In the Trenches-Juristic Theory vs. Juristic Practice; (10) Magistrates and the Equitable Adjustment of Roman Civil Law; Conclusion; Part II Mosaic Law in the Light of Greco-Roman Discourses of Law to the End of the First Century CE; Introduction; 3 Bridging the Gap: Divine Law in Hellenistic and Second Temple Jewish Sources; Bridging the Gap 
505 8 0 |a The Correlation of Torah and Wisdom and the Mutual Transfer of Properties: Sirach, 1 Enoch, and QumranThe Correlation of Torah and Reason and the Transfer of Properties: Aristeas, 4 Maccabees, and Philo; Strategies for Negotiating Universalism and Particularism; Esoteric vs. Exoteric Wisdom: Law's Narrative in Sirach, 1 Enoch, Qumran, and Philo; Conclusion; 4 Minding the Gap: Paul; Paul and the Law; Genealogical Definition of Jewish Identity: Circumcision and the Law; Paul's Discourse of Ambivalence regarding the Mosiac Law; Conclusion; Part III The Rabbinic Construction of Divine Law 
505 8 0 |a Introduction5 The "Truth" about Torah; What Is Truth?; Measures of Authenticity; Measure 1: Formal Truth; Measure 2: Judicial Truth-Human Compromise and Divine Judgment; Measure 3: Ontological Truth-Realism vs. Nominalism; The Gaze of the Other; Rabbinic Self-Awareness: The Motif of Mockery; Conclusion; 6 The (Ir)rationality of Torah; Making the Case for the Law's Irrationality; Response 1: Conceding and Transvaluing the Premise; Response 2: Disowning the Premise; Response 3: Denying the Premise-Rationalist Apologetics; Ta'amei ha-Mitzvot/Ta'amei Torah 
505 8 0 |a Response 4: Splitting the Difference-an Acute Sense of Audience 
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