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

Knoppers, Gary N. and Levinson, Bernard M., edited by.

ISBN 10: 1575061406 / ISBN 13: 9781575061405

Published by Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana, 2007

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance.
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575061406
• ISBN 13: 9781575061405
• Binding: Hardbound
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Since antiquity, the five books of Moses have served as a sacred constitution, foundational for both Jews and Samaritans. However long the process of accepting the Pentateuch as authoritative tôrâ ("instruction") took, this was by all accounts a monumental achievement in the history of these peoples and indeed an important moment in the history of the ancient world. In the long development of Western societies, the Pentateuch has served as a major influence on the development of law, political philosophy, and social thought. The question is: how, where, and why did this process of acceptance occur, when did it occur, and how long did it take?

About the Author

Bernard M. Levinson holds the Berman Family Chair of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at the University of Minnesota. He is author of Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation (1997), which won the 1999 Salo W. Baron Award for Best First Book in Literature and Thought from the American Academy for Jewish Research. He is coeditor of four volumes, most recently The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance (2007), and the author of The Right Chorale: Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation (2008). The interdisciplinary significance of his work has been recognized with appointments to both the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.