The Invention of Judaism: Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul Volume 7
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Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in The Invention of Judaism , John J. Collins persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah became the touchstone for most of Judaism's adherents only in the hands of the rabbis of late antiquity. For 600 years prior, from the Babylonian Exile to the Roman destruction of the Second Temple, there was enormous variation in the way the Torah was understood...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520294122
ISBN13:9780520294127
Release Date:February 2017
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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