Sacred Law: Greek, Roman, Jewish

All laws of men are nourished by one law, the divine law. So wrote the fifth-century Greek philosopher Heraklitos. The concept of sacred law on the other hand is likely the remnant of a category first used in 1906 CE to define a particular corpus of Greek inscriptions pertaining to cult practice. It constitutes a subcategory of the vast category-- all laws of men -- that includes the intersection of the normative and the divine. Sacred law is not the abstract, pervasive, and diffuse notion of divine sponsorship--however conceived--of state power, or the vast realm captured between the terms religion and law, but rather covers a subcategory of explicit norms that govern religious cult practice