The Transformation of the Torah in Second Temple Judaism

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" The Transformation of the Torah in Second Temple Judaism "
John J. Collins

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075183
Doc. No	:	LA118812
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12341235‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	John J. Collins
Title & Author	:	The Transformation of the Torah in Second Temple Judaism [Article]\ John J. Collins
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal for the Study of Judaism
Date	:	2012
Volume/ Issue Number	:	43/4-5
Page No	:	455–474
Abstract	:	While the Torah enjoys central importance in the sectarian scrolls, it is not nearly so central in the Aramaic texts found at Qumran. These texts show familiarity with the stories of Genesis and Exodus, but they treat them as sources for stories and wisdom instruction rather than for prescriptive law. The same is true of Ben Sira. Ancestral laws were very important in the Hellenistic world, but their importance was largely symbolic. Even Ezra seems to have focused primarily on a few issues of symbolic importance. Only after the Maccabean revolt do we begin to get sustained halakic discussion in such books as the Temple Scroll and Jubilees. The increased prominence of halakic disputes went hand in hand with the rise of sectarianism.
Descriptor	:	ancestral laws
Descriptor	:	Ezra
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	halakah
Descriptor	:	Jewish Studies
Descriptor	:	Maccabean revolt
Descriptor	:	sectarianism
Descriptor	:	Torah
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12341235‬