What's Divine About Divine Law? · Early Perspectives by Hayes, Christine -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction

Part I Biblical and Greco-Roman Discourses of Divine Law

Introduction 1 Biblical Discourses of Divine Law

Introduction Discourses of the Law Discourse 1: Divine Law as an Expression of Divine Will Discourse 2: Divine Law as an Expression of Divine Reason Discourse 3: Divine Law and Historical Narrative The Multidimensionality of Biblical Divine Law

2 Greco-Roman Discourses of Law

Introduction 3 Bridging the Gap: Divine Law in Hellenistic and Second Temple Jewish Sources

4 Minding the Gap: Paul

Paul and the Law Genealogical Definition of Jewish Identity: Circumcision and the Law Paul’s Discourse of Ambivalence regarding the Mosiac Law Conclusion

Part III The Rabbinic Construction of Divine Law

Introduction 5 The “Truth” about Torah

What Is Truth? Measures of Authenticity Measure 1: Formal Truth Measure 2: Judicial Truth—Human Compromise and Divine Judgment Measure 3: Ontological Truth—Realism vs. Nominalism The Gaze of the Other Rabbinic Self-Awareness: The Motif of Mockery Conclusion

6 The (Ir)rationality of Torah

7 The Flexibility of Torah

Legislative Mechanisms of Change—a Rhetoric of Disclosure? Uprooting Torah Law Uprooting Torah Law in Light of the Praetorian Edict Nonlegislative Mechanisms of Change—a Rhetoric of Concealment? Modification of the Law—Internal Values Modification of the Law—External Values Moral Critique and Phronesis Conclusion

8 Natural Law in Rabbinic Sources?

Normativity before the Law Law Precedes Sinai Sinaitic Law Begins at Sinai Accounting for Diverse Rabbinic Views on Pre-Sinai Normativity The Noahide Laws Are the Noahide Laws Invariable, Universal, Rational, and Embedded in Nature? Conclusion

Writing the Next Chapters Bibliography Index of Primary Sources General Index