Torah in Early Jewish Imaginations

edited by Ariel Feldman and Timothy J. Sandoval

Book cover: Torah in Early Jewish Imaginations

Extent: 242 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies, Jewish Studies

Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament

Series volume number: 171

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2023)

ISBN: 9783161626647

Price: $155.00

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The term Torah/torah can be understood as the five books of Moses (the Pentateuch) or more generally as “law” , “instruction” , or “teaching” including the authoritative interpretation of the Pentateuch. This volume looks at the various ways early Jewish texts including the Dead Sea Scrolls understood and practised Torah and torah.


Torah is a topic of keen interest among scholars of the Bible and Second Temple Judaism. The Hellenistic age especially witnessed an undeniable textual pluriformity of not only the Pentateuch (Torah), but of a host of other works concerned with traditions of authoritative “teaching” or “instruction” (torah) that was related in complex ways to books that would become part of the Hebrew Bible. In the Second Temple period, the term torah was thus a robustly multivalent term, deployed in discourses emerging from different contexts, and toward a range of rhetorical ends. The essays in this volume employ a plethora of methodologies to offer innovative studies of a range of early Jewish literature – including texts from the Hebrew Bible, the so-called Apocrypha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint – that is concerned in different ways with Torah/ torah .

  • Edited by Ariel Feldman
  • Edited by Timothy J Sandoval