Produktbild
Christine Hayes

What's Divine About Divine Law?

Early Perspectives

Buch

How ancient thinkers grappled with competing conceptions of divine lawIn 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 conflicting legacy.Christine Hayes shows that for the ancient Greeks, divine law was divine b… Mehr

CHF 38.50

Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)

Versandfertig innerhalb 1-3 Werktagen

Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-691-17625-3
  • EAN: 9780691176253
  • Produktnummer: 21869255
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 432 S.
  • Masse: H15.7 cm x B23.4 cm x D3.3 cm 686 g
  • Gewicht: 686
  • Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor


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.

27 weitere Werke von Christine Hayes:


Bewertungen


0 von 0 Bewertungen

Geben Sie eine Bewertung ab!

Teilen Sie Ihre Erfahrungen mit dem Produkt mit anderen Kunden.