Title Statements
- Full title :Authoritative scriptures in ancient Judaism / edited by Mladen Popović.
Summary
Many scholars of the Second Temple period have replaced the concept of canonization by that of canonical process. Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been crucial for this new direction. Based on this new evidence taxonomic terms like biblical, nonbiblical or parabiblical seem anachronistic for the period before 70 C.E. The notion of authoritative Scriptures plays an important part in the new paradigm of canonical process, but it has not yet been sufficiently reflected upon and is in need of clarification. Why were some texts more authoritative than others? For whom and in what contexts were tex.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Brill
- Place of Publication:Leiden
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
Notes
"This volume is a collection of contributions that reflect on the issue of the authoritativeness of Scriptures in Second Temple period Judaism. They result from a conference that the Qumran Institute organized on 28-29 April 2008"--Preface
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 394 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789004185302, 9004185305, 9789004190740, 9004190740
- DOI:10.1163/ej.9789004185302.i-402
- oclc:ocn700523150
- LC Classification:BS480
- Dewey Decimal:221.1
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