The Significance of the Divine Torah in Ptolemaic Egypt in Documentary and Literary Sources from the Third and Second Centuries BCE
This essay analyzes the Torah’s role in Judean communities from Ptolemaic Egypt in order to evaluate the significance of the Judean claim of divine origins for their law in relation to the conceptual or functional nature of this law. An introductory step explores the nature of the Judean communities...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Journal for the study of Judaism
Year: 2022, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-31 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Aristeas, Epistolographus, Ad Philocratem
/ Egypt (Antiquity)
/ History 323 BC-30 BC
/ Old Testament
/ Legislation
/ God
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| RelBib Classification: | HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Ptolemaic Egypt
B Divine Law B Letter of Aristeas B Pentateuch B Septuagint |
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