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According to Spinoza, divine law is necessary and eternal; it cannot be changed by any human or divine action. Hence, miracles, which by definition are violations of divinely created laws of nature, are impossible.
Divine law can be minimally defined as the idea that the norms that guide human actions are somehow rooted in the divine realm (Brague 2007, viii)— a concept common to Judaism, christianity, and islam.
Divine law not only incorporates natural law as known by reason and which provides the foundation for human or conventional law; it is also the ideal expression of natural and human law. What divine law is not, according to this conception, is a law that God directly legislates.
Mar 9, 2018 · The first, stemming from the Greek philosophic tradition, assumes that divine law must be immutable, rational, and universal. By contrast, divine law in the Hebrew Bible is often changed, devoid of rationality, and formulated particularly for a specific community.
Spinoza's assumption that any law attributable to God must apply to all people, regardless of time and place, has enabled him to argue his way to a negative conclusion about divine law: if we want to understand it, we should not concentrate on legislation devised for specific communities such as the Jews, however counter‐intuitive this may seem ...
What’s so Divine about Divine Law? Part i— two conceptions of Divine Law Parts ii and iii— Three responses Part ii— Mosaic Law in the Light of Greco- roman Discourses of Law: Ancient Jewish responses to the end of the First century ce Part iii— The rabbinic construction of Divine Law. Part I. Biblical and Greco- Roman Discourses of Divine Law.
Christine Hayes shows that for the ancient Greeks, divine law was divine by virtue of its inherent qualities of intrinsic rationality, truth, universality, and immutability, while for the biblical authors, divine law was divine because it was grounded in revelation with no presumption of rationality, conformity to truth, universality, or ...
