Abstract
This article explores early Jewish conceptions of the “bad man” as reflected in the hermeneutic legacy of one seminal biblical passage (Num 15:30-31) in order to discern the most egregious forms of religious wrongs. This offers a prism for gauging whether early iterations of “Judaism” were so fully aligned with law and praxis that this constituted the entirety of religious life and its ultimate measure. Or, alternatively, whether one can already perceive in classical Jewish discourse an acknowledgement, or even an articulation, of a “religious” or “theological” nucleus apart from the normative order.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Law as Religion, Religion as Law |
| Editors | Benjamin Porat, David C. Flatto |
| Place of Publication | Cambridge |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 197-224 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781108486538 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2022 |
Keywords
- Numbers
- Qumran
- Rabbis
- World to Come
- excision
- faith
- heresy
- law and religion
- midrash
- theology
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- Jewish law
- Manual of discipline -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Sifrei -- Criticism, interpretation, etc