The Authority of Law in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism, : Tracing the Origins of Legal Obligation from Ezra to Qumran.
In The Authority of Law in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism , Vroom identifies a development in the authority of written law that took place in early Judaism. Ever since Assyriologists began to recognize that the Mesopotamian law collections did not function as law codes do today—as a source of bi...
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| Superior document: | Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; Volume 187 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (263 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Theory and Method
- Identifying Legal Obligation in Interpretive Sources
- History of Research and the Need for a Legal-Theoretical Approach
- Authority and Problem of Interpretation
- Textual Analysis
- Legal Interpretation in the Temple Scroll’s Yom Kippur Law
- Legal Innovation in the Samaritan Pentateuch’s Covenant Code
- Legal Rewriting in the Qumran Penal Codes
- The Authority of the Torah in the Ezra-Nehemiah Legal Narratives
- Conclusion
- Back Matter
- Bibliography.