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What's Divine about Divine Law? - Early Perspectives (Paperback)
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What's Divine about Divine Law? - Early Perspectives (Paperback)
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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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