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The Formation of the Jewish Canon (Hardcover)
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The Formation of the Jewish Canon (Hardcover)
Series: The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
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The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented
insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before
its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the
formation of the canon in Ancient Judaism from the emergence of the
Torah in the Persian period to the final acceptance of the list of
twenty-two/twenty-four books in the Rabbinic period. Using the
Hebrew Bible, the Scrolls, the Apocrypha, the Letter of Aristeas,
the writings of Philo, Josephus, the New Testament, and Rabbinic
literature as primary evidence he argues that throughout the
post-exilic period up to around 100 CE there was not one official
"canon" accepted by all Jews; rather, there existed a plurality of
collections of scriptures that were authoritative for different
communities. Examining the literary sources and historical
circumstances that led to the emergence of authoritative scriptures
in ancient Judaism, Lim proposes a theory of the majority canon
that posits that the Pharisaic canon became the canon of Rabbinic
Judaism in the centuries after the destruction of the Jerusalem
Temple.
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