Truth About Divine Law with Dr. Christine Hayse

This season of Turn it & Turn it is on the topic of: "Halakhic History"

Alexander the Great's conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean brought to the foreground an inherent cognitive dissonance in views of Divine Law as envisioned by the Greco-Romans and the Hebrew Bible - which we've grappled with for the past 2,500 years. How does this context impact our understanding of the legal framework the Rabbis then cultivated?

This audio was originally recorded on 05/18/2013