The Samaritans and Their Pentateuch

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. How, When, Where, and Why Did the Pentateuch Become the Torah? 1
5. Part 1. Ratifying Local Law Codes in an International Age
6. The Persian Imperial Authorization as a Historical Problem and as a Biblical Construct: A Plea for Distinctions in the Current Debate 23
7. The Rise of Torah 39
8. Local Law in an Imperial Context: The Role of Torah in the (Imagined) Persian Period 57
9. Temple and Torah: Reflections on the Legal Status of the Pentateuch between Elephantine and Qumran 77
10. The Pentateuch in Ancient Mediterranean Context: The Publication of Local Lawcodes 105
11. Part 2. Prophets, Polemics, and Publishers: The Growing Importance of Writing in Persian Period Judah
12. From History Writing to Library Building: The End of History and the Birth of the Book 145
13. Scribal Scholarship in the Formation of Torah and Prophets: A Postexilic Scribal Debate between Priestly Scholarship and Literary Prophecy— The Example of the Book of Jeremiah and Its Relation to the Pentateuch 171
14. Part 3. The Torah as a Foundational Document in Judah and Samaria
15. The Torah between Samaria and Judah: Shechem and Gerizim in Deuteronomy and Joshua 187
16. The “Publication” of Legal Texts in Ancient Judah 225
17. The Samaritans and Their Pentateuch 237
18. Part 4. The Translation, Interpretation, and Application of the Torah in Early Jewish Literature
19. The Second Temple and the Legal Status of the Torah: The Hermeneutics of the Torah in the Books of Ruth and Ezra 273
20. The Septuagint of the Pentateuch and Ptolemaic Rule 289
21. The Use of the Pentateuch in the Temple Scroll and the Damascus Document in the Second Century B.C.E. 301
22. The Torah as the Rhetoric of Priesthood 319
23. Index of Authors 333
24. Index of Scripture 341
25. Index of Other Ancient Sources 349