Torah in Early Jewish Imaginations
edited by Ariel Feldman and Timothy J. Sandoval
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
Other Titles in this Series
Scribal Laws
Exegetical Variation in the Textual Transmission of Biblical Law in the Late Second Temple Period
Volume 92
From the Reed Sea to Kadesh
A Redactional and Socio-Historical Study of the Pentateuchal Wilderness Narrative
Volume 159
Identitatsstiftende Begegnung
Die theologische Deutung des regelmassigen Kultes Israels in der Tora
Volume 121
Texte und Kontexte des Sirachbuchs
Gesammelte Studien zu Ben Sira und zur fruhjudischen Weisheit
Volume 98
Gott in Bewegung
Religions- und theologiegeschichtliche Beitrage zu Gottesvorstellungen im alten Israel
Volume 76
Wie JHWH spricht
Die temporelle Steuerung von Verbalaussagen in den Reden nach den Gottesspruchformeln
Historical Settings, Intertextuality, and Biblical Theology
Essays in Honor of Marvin A. Sweeney
Volume 160
Book-Seams in the Hexateuch I
The Literary Transitions Between the Books of Genesis/Exodus and Joshua/Judges
Volume 120
Prophetie und Konigtum
Eine narratologisch-historische Methodologie entwickelt an den Konigsbuchern
Volume 60
Economics in Persian-Period Biblical Texts
Their Interactions with Economic Developments in the Persian Period and Earlier Biblical Traditions
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