Judaism in Late Antiquity 3. Where we Stand: Issues and Debates in Ancient Judaism

What, in Judaism - a religion so concerned with social norms and public policy - can we possibly mean by "e;law"e;? That is the thoroughly fresh perspective with which this work commences. It proceeds with two chapters on Second Temple Judaism, and two on the special subject of the Dead Sea library. Learning withers when criticism is substituted by political consensus, and when other than broadly ...