How the “Torah of Moses” Became Revelation

Noting that, in the Hebrew Bible, law, but not narrative, is attributed to Moses, this paper argues that the notion of the “Torah of Moses” as revealed literature, word for word dictation to Moses, is to be traced to a late Second Temple construction of the Pentateuch as apocalypse. The move is evid...

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Main Author: Lambert, David (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2016, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 22-54
Further subjects:B Pentateuch Book of Jubilees apocalypticism pseudepigraphy Dead Sea Scrolls revelation Rewritten Bible interpretation
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