What's Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives by Hayes, Christine

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...
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Author: Christine Hayes
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What's Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives by Hayes, Christine

What's Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives

$207.63

What's Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives

$207.63
Author: Christine Hayes
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.


Author: Christine Hayes
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 07/28/2015
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780691165196


Award: National Jewish Book Award - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2016

About the Author
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.

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