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Zusatztext "This is a thorough and creative treatment! and the arguments in chs. 4-6! in particular! will command attention from students of the growth of institutionalization in Jewish law" 32.5 (2008) Informationen zum Autor Michael Lefebvre is a minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church (North America). Scholars of biblical law are already widely agreed that ancient Israel did not draft law-texts for legislative purposes. This study critiques and challenges the current consensus, and presents an alternative hypothesis. Zusammenfassung Scholars of biblical law are already widely agreed that ancient Israel did not draft law-texts for legislative purposes. Little attention has yet been given to explaining how and when later Judaism did come to regard Torah as legislative. As a result, the current consensus (that Ezra introduced legislative uses of Torah) is based on assumptions which have been never tested. This study steps into that crucial gap, critiques and challenges the current consensus, and presents an alternative hypothesis. . Inhaltsverzeichnis Lefebvre Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Collections, Codes, and Torah....................................................................... 1 The Cuneiform Law-Writings .................................................................................................8 The Athenian Law-Writings ................................................................................................. 17 Methodology and Approach ................................................................................................. 21 2. Written-Law in Ancient Israel............................................................................................ 28 Current Scholarship on Hebrew Law-Writing ............................................................................ 29 Source-Law in the Pentateuchal Judiciary ............................................................................... 36 Proponents of the Legislative Model ...................................................................................... 43 Conclusions .................................................................................................................... 49 3. Written-Law in the Deuteronomic School ........................................................................ 51 Patrick on Deuteronomic Law-Writings ................................................................................... 53 Westbrook on Deuteronomic Law-Writings ............................................................................... 66 Deuteronomic Attitudes toward Law-Writings........................................................................... 79 Conclusions .................................................................................................................... 86 4. Written-Law in Persian-Era Yehud.................................................................................... 87 Law-Book Citations in Ezra-Nehemiah .................................................................................... 92 Law-Book Study in Ezra-Nehemiah........................................................................................119 Conclusions ...................................................................................................................126 5. Written-Law in Hellenistic-Era Judea (I): Ptolemaic Court-Reforms.............................. 133 The Juridical System of Ptolemy II - in Egypt..........................................................................140 The Juridical System of Ptolemy II - in Judea .........................................................................144 The Impact on Native-Law - in Egypt..................................
