The Pentateuch as Torah : new models for understanding its promulgation and acceptance / [print]
edited by Gary N. Knoppers and Bernard M. Levinson.
- Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, (c)2007.
- xvi, 352 pages ; 24 cm.
"The origins of this volume lie in the four special panels on Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Law that convened at the 2006 International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Edinburgh ... "--P. 1.
How, when, where, and why did the Pentateuch become the Torah? / Gary N. Knoppers, Bernard M. Levinson -- The Persian imperial authorization as a historical problem and as a biblical construct : a plea for distinctions in the current debate The rise of Torah Local law in an imperial context : the role of Torah in the (imagined) Persian period Temple and Torah : reflections on the legal status of the Pentateuch between Elephantine and Qumran The Pentateuch in ancient Mediterranean context : the publication of local lawcodes From history writing to library building : the end of history and the birth of the book 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 The Torah between Samaria and Judah : Shechem and Gerizim in Deuteronomy and Joshua The "publication" of legal texts in ancient Judah The Samaritans and their Pentateuch The second temple and the legal status of the Torah : the hermeneutics of the Torah in the Books of Ruth and Ezra The Septuagint of the Pentateuch and Ptolemaic rule 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 Konrad Schmid -- David M. Carr -- Anselm C. Hagedorn -- Reinhard G. Kratz -- Gary N. Knoppers and Paul B. Harvey Jr. -- Jean-Louis Ska -- Eckart Otto -- Christophe Nihan -- Joachim Schaper -- Reinhard Pummer -- Sebastian Gratz -- Arie van der Kooij -- James W. Watts.