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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 Editedby DAVID C. FLATTO TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem BENJAMIN PORAT TheHebrewUniversityofJerusalem ShaftesburyRoad,Cambridgecb28ea,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment, adepartmentoftheUniversityofCambridge. 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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 vii