The Nature of Divine Law

For this first solo episode on the podcast I look into the question of the nature of divine law. I draw on research by Christine Hayes in her book "What's Divine About Divine Law?" which looks at answers given in the traditions of the Hebrew Bible, Greek philosophy, and the convergence of the two. We get into the Biblical texts, philosophers like Plato, Cicero, and Philo of Alexandria, as well as the ideas of some modern thinkers like Richard Rorty and James K.A. Smith.