The authority of law in the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism: tracing the origins of legal obligation from Ezra to Qumran
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 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 -- Textual Analysis -- Lega...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
2018
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Journal for the study of Judaism (187)
Year: 2018 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Vroom, Jonathan, The authority of law in the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism : tracing the origins of legal obligation from Ezra to Qumran] (2020) (Amihay, Aryeh, 1977 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Journal for the study of Judaism Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism
187 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ Early Judaism
/ Jewish law
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| Further subjects: | B
Jewish Law
History To 1500
B Authority Religious aspects Judaism B Law (Theology) Biblical teaching |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (Verlag) |
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| Summary: | Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 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 -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography. 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 |
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| ISBN: | 9004381643 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004381643 |