Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Law as Religion, Religion as Law
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2022) 83-112
Keywords:
Jewish law Methodology
;
Judaism Doctrines
;
Religion and law
;
Judaism Historiography
Abstract:
This paper traces the evolution of the meanings of the formative term dat, as it evolved in the history of Jewish culture throughout the ages. Its biblical meaning, derived from the Persian, is law, originally human law. In Judaism it was transformed into Divine law. This was basically the meaning it carried throughout the ages. With the advent of modernity, this old term started to acquire a radically new meaning, influenced by the appearance of the term ‘religion’ in Christianity, now applied to every so-called ‘religion’, including Judaism. My paper elaborates on the process by which the Hebrew term dat was transformed into ‘religion’ in modernity, and its implication concerning the changing meaning of Judaism.
DOI:
10.1017/9781108760997.005
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