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

Octavo, glossy printed paper covers, xvi, 352 pp., indexes Articles are "How, When, Where, and Why Did the Pentateuch Become the Torah?" Gary N. Knoppers and Bernard M. Levinson, "The Persian Imperial Authorization as a Historical Problem and as a Biblical Construct: A Plea for Distinctions in the Current Debate," Konrad Schmid, "The Rise of Torah," David M. Carr, "Local Law in an Imperial Context: The Role of Torah in the (Imagined) Persian Period," Anselm C. Hagedorn, "Temple and Torah: Reflections on the Legal Status of the Pentateuch between Elephantine and Qumran," Reinhard G. Kratz, "The Pentateuch in Ancient Mediterranean Context: The Publication of Local Lawcodes," Gary N. Knoppers and Paul B. Harvey, Jr., "From History Writing to Library Building: The End of History and the Birth of the Book," Jean-Louis Ska, "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," Eckart Otto, "The Torah between Samaria and Judah: Shechem and Gerizim in Deuteronomy and Joshua," Christophe Nihan,"The "Publication" of Legal Texts in Ancient Judah," Joachim Schaper, "The Samaritans and Their Pentateuch," Reinhard Pummer, "The Second Temple and the Legal Status of the Torah: The Hermeneutics of the Torah in the Books of Ruth and Ezra," Sebastian Grätz, "The Septuagint of the Pentateuch and Ptolemaic Rule," Arie van der Kooij, "The Use of the Pentateuch in the Temple Scroll and the Damascus Document in the Second Century B.C.E.," Sidnie White Crawford, "The Torah as the Rhetoric of Priesthood," James W. Watts.…