What's Divine about Divine Law?

Early Perspectives

Christine Hayes

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Princeton University Pres
17 July 2017

Religion & beliefs; Philosophy of religion; History of ideas; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects

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 tr

By: Christine Hayes
Imprint: Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 624g
ISBN: 9780691176253
ISBN 10: 0691176256
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 17 July 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for What's Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives

"Winner of the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award), Jewish Book Council ""Hayes's careful examination of the full range of this literature, especially her deep evaluation of the developments within Rabbinism, represents a major step in understanding of both a central concept in law and a fundamental underpinning of Judaism from antiquity until the present day.""--A. J. Avery-Peck, Choice ""Christine Hayes has both enriched and challenged the scholarly community with a thoroughly explorative, ambitious, and erudite study of the modalities of Jewish law in relation to Graeco-Roman law theory.""--Peter J. Tomson, Journal for the Study of Judaism ""This book is beautifully written, carefully structured and as such represents a wonderfully clear way in to the bewildering world of rabbinic Judaism as well as shedding new light on some of the ongoing debates in both Jewish and legal studies.""--Joshua M. Heyes, Theology"

Winner of 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies 2016
Winner of National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship 2015
Winner of PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers 2016
Winner of PROSE Awards: Theology & Religious Studies 2016
Winner of PROSE Awards: Theology & Religious Studies 2016.