Rethinking the Place of the Pentateuch in Late Persian and Hellenistic-era ‘Priestly’ Literature

A significant amount of literature was composed in the late Persian and Hellenistic periods that demonstrates a marked interest in priestly and priestly-adjacent matters. This literature has typically been analyzed with an assumption that the Pentateuch serves as a kind of “base text” that these aut...

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1. VerfasserIn: Feldman, Liane (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2022
In: Journal of ancient Judaism
Jahr: 2022, Band: 13, Heft: 3, Seiten: 257-284
weitere Schlagwörter:B Temple
B Aristeas
B Priestly
B Sacrifice
B Pentateuch
B Aramaic Levi Document
B Chronicles
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Zusammenfassung:A significant amount of literature was composed in the late Persian and Hellenistic periods that demonstrates a marked interest in priestly and priestly-adjacent matters. This literature has typically been analyzed with an assumption that the Pentateuch serves as a kind of “base text” that these authors used to create their texts. In this article, I pose what is normally taken as the starting point for the analysis of this material as the question to be answered: do Persian and Hellenistic-era Jewish authors writing about priestly-related matters draw on the Pentateuch? And if so, how are they engaging with it in their own compositions? To answer these questions, I examine three compositions: Chronicles, the Letter of Aristeas, and the Aramaic Levi Document. My analysis of these three texts shows that they have a broad range of engagement with the pentateuchal priestly writings.
ISSN:2196-7954
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of ancient Judaism
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.30965/21967954-bja10026