Traditions at odds : the reception of the Pentateuch in biblical and Second Temple period literature / John H. Choi. [print]

Introduction and statement of purpose -- Methodology. -- A critique of the linear model of composition ; -- Alternatives to a linear model ; -- Methodological approach -- (Ideological content ; -- When is the same not the same? ; -- Lack of awareness and the issue of relevance ; -- A resistant reading) ; -- A note about Second Temple period literature -- Festivals and holidays. -- A theory of ritual ; -- Festivals and holidays in the Bible -- (Pesach and Matsoth ; -- Sukkoth ; -- Sabbath) ; -- Festivals and holidays in the Second Temple period -- (Expansions of biblical law ; -- Amalgamation of biblical laws ; -- Retrojection of biblical holidays) ; -- Conclusion -- Non-Pentateuchal historical retrospectives. -- The Bible and historiography ; -- Non-Pentateuchal historiographic texts -- (Psalm 78 ; -- Psalm 105 ; -- The plagues in Psalms 78 and 105 ; -- Psalm 106 ; -- Joshua 24 ; -- Ezekiel 20 ; -- Nehemiah 9 ; -- Historiography in the Second Temple period ; -- The Genesis apocryphon ; -- The Liber antiquitatum biblicarum of Pseudo-Philo ; -- "Competitive historiography" of Jewish-Hellenistic historians ; -- The Book of Jubilees) ; -- Conclusion -- The Pentateuch as Torah. -- The role of literacy in the ancient world ; -- "Direct" citations of "instruction" -- ("Instruction" in the Deuteronomistic history ; -- "Instruction" in prophetic literature ; -- "Instruction" in post-exilic historiographic texts (Ezra, Nehemiah, Chronicles)) ; -- "Instruction" in the Psalms and wisdom literature ; -- Competing conceptions of "instruction" in the Second Temple period ; -- Conclusion -- Conclusions : a look ahead.

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