Did Moses Speak Attic?: Jewish Historiography and Scripture in the Hellenistic Period

by Lester L. Grabbe

Publisher:

JSOT Press

, 2001

Overview

Is the Bible a Hellenistic book? The essays in Did Moses Speak Attic? respond to that challenging question, formulated by Niels Peter Lemche, and offer everything from qualified agreement to vociferous opposition. In so doing, they debate and illuminate the many features of Jewish writing in the Second Temple period, including not only the Scriptures themselves and their own history, but the non-canonized literature of the late Second-Temple period. The purpose of the essays presented here is to, in Grabbe’s words, “thrash out questions of historical methodology.” Lester Grabbe introduces the discussion, contributes several articles, and concludes the text with a reflection.

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Key Features

• Dedication to Robert P. Carroll by the editor
• Bibliographical references and indexes

Contributors

• Rainer Albertz
• Hans M. Barstad
• Bob Becking
• Robert P. Carroll
• Philip R. Davies
• Lester L. Grabbe
• David M. Gunn
• Niels Peter Lemche
• Kai Peltonen
• Thomas L. Thompson

Product Details

• Title: Did Moses Speak Attic?: Jewish Historiography and Scripture in the Hellenistic Period
• Editor: Lester L. Grabbe
• Publisher: JSOT
• Publication Date: 2001
• Pages: 347

About Lester L. Grabbe

Lester L. Grabbe (Ph.D. Claremont) is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull, UK. He is the author of Wisdom of Solomon in this series, Good Kings and Bad Kings and A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, Vol. 1 (included in the Second Temple Period Collection) and Can a “History of Israel” be Written? (included in the Studies in Old Testament Themes).