The Significance of the Divine Torah in Ptolemaic Egypt in Documentary and Literary Sources from the Third and Second Centuries BCE

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This paper investigates how Judeans in Egypt during the 3rd-2nd centuries BCE thought about their "Law," that is the Torah, the first five books of the Jewish or Christian Bible. _x000D_ It takes a look at court documents and literature to show that these Judeans did not understand or use the Torah as "law" the way law is typically viewed in the modern world, but rather a way to maintain their sense of group belonging and to show that their "law" was superior to Greek philosophy.

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