The formation of the Jewish canon
Series: The Anchor Yale Bible reference library
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780300164343
Description: The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in ancient Judaism from the emergence of the Torah in the Persian period to the final acceptance of the list of twenty-two/twenty-four books in the Rabbinic period.