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The Transformation of Torah from Scribal Advice to Law

  • Hardback
  • 200 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

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For scholars and students of biblical studies and theology

Challenges traditional views on biblical law's origins

You will gain a deeper understanding of Torah's meaning

This insightful book explores the evolution of biblical law from moral advice to divine command.

Recent discussion of biblical law sees it either as a response to socio-economic factors or as an intellectual tradition. In either case it is viewed as the product of elites that form an international community drawing on a common culture. This book takes that fundamental discussion a step further by proposing that 'law' is an inappropriate term for the biblical codes, and that they represent, rather, the 'moral advice' of scribes working independently of the legal framework and appealing to Yahweh as authority. Only by prolonged exegesis and through the transformation of Judaean religion does this 'advice' take the form of divine law binding on Jews.

  • Title

    The Transformation of Torah from Scribal Advice to Law

  • Author

    Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    June 1999

  • Weight

    409g

  • Page Count

    200

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781850759539

  • ISBN-10

    1850759537

  • Eden Code

    1181835

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