Torah in Early Jewish Imaginations

Torah is a topic of keen interest among scholars of the Bible and Second Temple Judaism. The Hellenistic age especially witnessed an undeniable textual pluriformity of not only the Pentateuch (Torah), but of a host of other works concerned with traditions of authoritative "teaching" or "instruction" ( torah ) that was related in complex ways to books that would become part of the Hebrew Bible. In the Second Temple period, the term torah was thus a robustly multivalent term, deployed in discourses emerging from different contexts, and toward a range of rhetorical ends. The essays in this volume employ a plethora of methodologies to offer innovative studies of a range of early Jewish literature - including texts from the Hebrew Bible, the so-called Apocrypha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint - that is concerned in different ways with Torah/ torah .

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Born 1974; BA, MA, and PhD degrees from University of Haifa, Israel; Professor of Jewish Studies at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. Born 1966; AB from the University of California, Davis; MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary; PhD in Hebrew Bible from Emory University; Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University.