The Pentateuch as Torah : : New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance / / ed. by Bernard M. Levinson, Gary N. Knoppers.
Since antiquity, the five books of Moses have served as a sacred constitution, foundational for both Jews and Samaritans. However long the process of accepting the Pentateuch as authoritative tōrâ ("instruction") took, this was by all accounts a monumental achievement in the history of the...
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Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- How, When, Where, and Why Did the Pentateuch Become the Torah?
- Part 1. Ratifying Local Law Codes in an International Age
- The Persian Imperial Authorization as a Historical Problem and as a Biblical Construct: A Plea for Distinctions in the Current Debate
- The Rise of Torah
- Local Law in an Imperial Context: The Role of Torah in the (Imagined) Persian Period
- Temple and Torah: Reflections on the Legal Status of the Pentateuch between Elephantine and Qumran
- The Pentateuch in Ancient Mediterranean Context: The Publication of Local Lawcodes
- Part 2. Prophets, Polemics, and Publishers: The Growing Importance of Writing in Persian Period Judah
- From History Writing to Library Building: The End of History and the Birth of the Book
- Scribal Scholarship in the Formation of Torah and Prophets: A Postexilic Scribal Debate between Priestly Scholarship and Literary Prophecy- The Example of the Book of Jeremiah and Its Relation to the Pentateuch
- Part 3. The Torah as a Foundational Document in Judah and Samaria
- The Torah between Samaria and Judah: Shechem and Gerizim in Deuteronomy and Joshua
- The "Publication" of Legal Texts in Ancient Judah
- The Samaritans and Their Pentateuch
- Part 4. The Translation, Interpretation, and Application of the Torah in Early Jewish Literature
- The Second Temple and the Legal Status of the Torah: The Hermeneutics of the Torah in the Books of Ruth and Ezra
- The Septuagint of the Pentateuch and Ptolemaic Rule
- The Use of the Pentateuch in the Temple Scroll and the Damascus Document in the Second Century B.C.E.
- The Torah as the Rhetoric of Priesthood
- Index of Authors
- Index of Scripture
- Index of Other Ancient Sources