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from Part III - Natural Law Ethics and Religion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2019
The question of whether Judaism recognises a natural law independent of Jewish law (halakhah) is contentious, and pertains to the role played by revelation in the promulgation of law. While some scholars have argued that the very notion of natural law precludes the doctrine of revelation and its complex set of divinely revealed laws, others have tried to reconcile the essential components of natural law theory with a theory of divine revelation. In part, this question reflects, once more, the age-old tension between reason and revelation: whether the basic tenets of Judaism are rational, or are founded in revelation alone. In other words, can we somehow accommodate both reason and revelation within the fabric of Jewish law?
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