The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance

The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance
ISBN-10
1575061406
ISBN-13
9781575061405
Category
Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Eisenbrauns
Authors
Gary N. Knoppers, Bernard Malcolm Levinson

Description

"This interdisciplinary collection of essays on the promulgation of the Pentateuch and its acceptance as authoritative Torah includes contributions from international specialists on the Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Samaritan history, colonial theory, Mediterranean studies, the Elephantine Island texts, and comparative legal history. The material gathered here is a state-of-the-art presentation of the issues, raising new questions and seeking new answers." "The book includes a substantive introduction that pulls the various contributions together and places them in the broader context of recent work on the propagation and acceptance of the Pentateuch as a prestigious writing in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods."--BOOK JACKET.

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