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The Invention of Judaism

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Invention of Judaism

By John J. Collins

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About the book

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. Collins provides a comprehensive account of t...Show more

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9780520294127

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University of California Press

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2017

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