Traditions at odds
Subtitle: the reception of the Pentateuch in biblical and Second Temple period literature
By: by John H. Choi.
Series: The library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- #518
Publisher: T & T Clark International; T&T Clark
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780567265241
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Pentateuch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History; Bible. -- O.T. -- Pentateuch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish -- History; Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History; Bible. -- O.T. -- Pentateuch -- Influence; Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and statement of purpose; title: Methodology; title: Critique of the linear model of composition; title: Alternatives to a linear model; title: Methodology; title: A note about Second Temple period literature; title: Festivals and holidays; title: A theory of ritual; title: Festivals and holidays in the Bible; title: Pesach and Matsoth; title: Sukkoth; title: Sabbath; title: Festivals and holidays in the Second Temple period; title: Non-pentateuchal historical retrospectives; title: The Bible and historiography; title: Non-pentateuchal historiographic texts; title: Psalm 78; title: Psalm 105; title: The plagues in Psalms 78 and 105; title: Psalm 106; title: Joshua 24; title: Ezekiel 20; title: Nehemiah 9; title: Historiography in the Second Temple period; title: Ben Sira 44-45; title: The Genesis apocryphon; title: The Liber antiquitatum biblicarum of pseudo-philo; title: Competitive historiography of Jewish-hellenistic historians; title: The Book of Jubilees; title: The Pentateuch as Torah; title: The role of literacy in the ancient world; title: Direct citations of instruction; title: Deuteronomic literature; title: Prophetic literature; title: Post-exilic historiographic texts; title: Instruction in the Psalms and wisdom literature; title: Competing conceptions of instruction in the Second Temple period; title: A look ahead.