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Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in Ancient Judaism from the emergence of the Torah in the Persian period to the final acceptance of the list of twenty-two/twenty-four books in the Rabbinic period. Using the Hebrew Bible, the Scrolls, the Apocrypha, the Letter of Aristeas, the writings of Philo, Josephus, the New Testament, and Rabbinic literature as...

The same dual pattern is also evident in 11QMelchizedek (11Q13). The only one to fit the description of the genre of “thematic pesher,” the scroll cites several instances of pesherite interpretation.67 The technical term “pesher” occurs five times in the scroll (11Q13 2:4, 12, 17, 20; fr. 6:4).68 It is used to interpret biblical sources but also serves to introduce a commentary on the periodization of history. Column 2 preserves what may be seen as
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