Did Moses Speak Attic?: Jewish Historiography and Scripture in the Hellenistic Period (Library Hebrew Bible Old Testament Studies)

Is the Bible a Hellenistic book? The essays in this volume 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. As with all the volumes in this pioneering series, the editor, Lester Grabbe, introduces and reflects upon the discussion and its implications for one of the most controversial topics in current biblical studies.

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies (LHBOTS) was formerly called the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series (JSOTS). Index Theologicus has the date for the change as 2005 – https://ixtheo.de/Record/519089766 – JSOTS numbering is continued. Sub series: European Seminar in Historical Methodology 3. Series publishers: JSOT Press; Sheffield Academic Press; T & T Clark International; Bloomsbury T & T Clark.