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Seconding Sinai: The Development of Mosaic Discourse in Second Temple Judaism (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)

By Hindy Najman

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2003
ISBN
9004115420, 9789004115422
Open Library ID
OL9084037M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
819 kB (838940 bytes)
Series
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 77
Pages
190\193
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

What is meant by attributing texts to Moses in Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism? The answer depends not only on the history of texts but also on the history of concepts of textuality. This book criticizes the terms "Pseudepigraphy" and "Rewritten Bible", which presuppose conceptions of authentic attribution and textual fidelity foreign to ancient Judaism. Instead, this book develops the concept of a discourse whose creativity and authority depend on repeated returns to the exemplary figure and experience of a founder. Attribution to Moses is a central example, whose function is to re-present the experience of revelation at Sinai. Distinctive features of Mosaic discourse are studied in Deuteronomy, Jubilees, the Temple Scroll, and the works of Philo of Alexandria.

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