Law As Religion, Religion As Law

404 Pages·2022·3.803 MB·English

by  David C. Flatto, Benjamin Porat

law as religion, religion as law
The conventional approach to law and religion assumes that these are competing
domains, which raises questions about the freedom of, and from, religion; alternate
commitments of religion and human rights; and respective jurisdictions of civil and
religiouscourts.Thisvolumemovesbeyondthiscompetitiveparadigmtoconsiderlaw
andreligionasoverlappingandinterrelatedframeworksthatstructurethesocialorder,
arguingthatlawandreligionsharesimilarpropertiesandhaveasymbioticrelationship.
Moreover,manylegalsystemsexhibitreligiouscharacteristics,informingtheirnotionsof
authority,precedent,ritualsandcanonicaltexts,andmostreligionsinvokelegalconcepts
orterminology.Thecontributorsaddressthisblurringoflawandreligioninthecontexts
of political theology, secularism, church-state conflicts, and the foundational idea of
divinelaw.ThistitleisalsoavailableasOpenAccessonCambridgeCore.
DavidC.FlattoisProfessorofLawandJewishphilosophyatTheHebrewUniversityof
Jerusalem.HismostrecentbookisTheCrownandtheCourts:SeparationofPowersin
theEarlyImagination(HarvardUniversityPress,2020).
BenjaminPoratisProfessorofLaw,Vice-DeanoftheFacultyofLaw,andtheDirectorof
theMatzInstituteforResearchinJewishLaw,atTheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem.
He is the author of The Principles of Welfare Regulations: From Biblical Law to
RabbinicLiterature(2019).

Law As Religion, Religion As Law
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DAVID C. FLATTO
TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem
BENJAMIN PORAT
TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem
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Contents
ListofContributors pagevii
Introduction 1
DavidC.FlattoandBenjaminPorat
a sanctification and secularization 5
1 DesanctificationofLawandtheProblemofAbsolutes 7
JeremyWaldron
2 TheParadoxofHumanRightsDiscourseandtheJewishLegal
Tradition 29
SuzanneLastStone
3 SovereignImaginaries
VisualizingtheSacredFoundationofLaw’sAuthority 53
RichardK.Sherwin
b legal-religious language 81
4 Dat:FromLawtoReligion
TheTransformationofaFormativeTerminModernTimes 83
AbrahamMelamed
5 LawAsReligion,ReligionAsLaw
HalakhahfromaSemioticPointofView 113
BernardS.Jackson
6 CanonicityAsaDefiningFeatureofLegalandReligiousDiscourse
AProgrammaticEssay 151
DanielReifman
v
vi Contents
c legal-theological roots 171
7 ExceptionalGrace
ReligionAstheSovereignSuspensionofLaw 173
RobertA.Yelle
8 ABadManTheoryofReligiousLaw(Numbers15:30–31
andItsAfterlife) 197
DavidC.Flatto
9 SovietLawandPoliticalReligion 225
DmytroVovk
10 InternationalLawasEvangelism 248
KevinCrow
d religious conceptions of law 271
11 “EnjoinThemuponYourChildrentoKeep”
(Deuteronomy32:46)
LawasCommandmentandLegacy,or,RobertCover
MeetsMidrash 273
StevenD.Fraade
12 “BetweenManandGod”and“BetweenManandHisFellow”
CategoriesinPolemicalContext 291
ItzhakBrand
13 ChristianFeastsandAdministrationofRomanJusticeinLate
Antiquity 314
SilviaSchiavo
e law in formation: religious perspectives 341
14 LawasaProblematicAspectofReligion
Paul’sSkepticisminaBroaderJewishContext 343
SergeRuzer
15 WhenLawMeetsTheology
LegalityandRevelationintheJewish,Islamic,andZoroastrian
TraditionsintheAbbasidPeriod 362
YishaiKiel
Contributors
ItzhakBrand,Bar-IlanUniversity
KevinCrow,AsiaSchoolofBusinessandMITSloanSchoolofManagement
DavidC.Flatto,TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem
StevenD.Fraade,YaleUniversity
BernardS.Jackson,UniversityofManchester
YishaiKiel,TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem
SuzanneLastStone,CardozoSchoolofLaw,YeshivaUniversity
AbrahamMelamed,UniversityofHaifa
BenjaminPorat,TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem
DanielReifman,InstituteforAdvancedTorahStudies,BarIlanUniversity
SergeRuzer,TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem
SilviaSchiavo,UniversityofFerrara
RichardK.Sherwin,NewYorkLawSchool
DmytroVovk,YaroslavMudryiNationalLawUniversity
JeremyWaldron,NewYorkUniversitySchoolofLaw
RobertA.Yelle,LudwigMaximilianUniversity,Munich
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