Argues that the sole useful categories for the analysis of the Torah derive from the Torah, the canon of the religion under study in this book. The author investigates the categories that commonly serve for the description, analysis and interpretation of ancient Judaism and the principles that form those categories. He asserts that none of those categories constitute social constructs, thus violating the inner composition of the data they are employed to classify. The book concludes with a proposed principle of category formation: Judaism's canon. Co-published with Studies in Judaism.
- ISBN10 0819153966
- ISBN13 9780819153968
- Publish Date 21 July 1986
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of America
- Format Paperback
- Pages 138
- Language English