What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives |
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| Author:
| Hayes, Christine |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-17625-3 |
| Publication Date: | May 2017 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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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
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