What's divine about divine law? : early perspectives
Christine Elizabeth Hayes (Author)
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. This work 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
eBook, English, 2017
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2017