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The authority of law in the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism : tracing the origins of legal obligation from Ezra to Qumran
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The authority of law in the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism : tracing the origins of legal obligation from Ezra to Qumran / by Jonathan Vroom.
ISBN
9004364498
9789004364493
9789004381643
9004381643
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
xi, 251 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
In The Authority of Law in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism, Vroom identifies a development in the authority of written law that took place in early Judaism. Ever since Assyriologists began to recognize that the Mesopotamian law collections did not function as law codes do today-as a source of binding obligation-scholars have grappled with the question of when the Pentateuchal legal corpora came to be treated as legally binding. Vroom draws from legal theory to provide a theoretical framework for understanding the nature of legal authority, and develops a methodology for identifying instances in which legal texts were treated as binding law by ancient interpreters. This method is applied to a selection of legal-interpretive texts: Ezra-Nehemiah, Temple Scroll, the Qumran rule texts, and the Samaritan Pentateuch.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 28, 2019
Series
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; volume 187
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-241) and indexes.
Contents
Part 1. Theory and method
Identifying legal obligation in interpretive sources
History of research and the need for a legal-theoretical approach
Authority and problem of interpretation
Part 2. Textual analysis
Legal interpretation in the Temple Scroll's Yom Kippur law
Legal innovation in the Samaritan Pentateuch's Covenant code
Legal rewriting in the Qumran penal codes
The authority of the Torah in the Ezra-Nehemiah legal narratives.
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History.
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