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What's Divine about Divine Law?

Early Perspectives

What's Divine about Divine Law?( )
Author: Hayes, Christine
ISBN:978-0-691-16519-6
Publication Date:Jul 2015
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $39.50
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:424
Detailed Subjects: Religion / Judaism / Rituals & Practice
Religion / Judaism / Theology
Religion / Religion, Politics & State
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.513 x 9.711 x 1.222 Inches
Book Weight:1.571 Pounds



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