What's Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives

by Christine Elizabeth Hayes

Book Overview

How ancient thinkers grappled with competing conceptions of divine law

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691176256
• ISBN13: 9780691176253
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"