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kh04dn42z3d	Shlomo M. Wadler	Genesis and Halakhah: An Analysis of the Relationship between Genesis and Law in the Second Temple Period	2018		.txt	text/plain	311	15	62	While the book of Genesis is part of a larger corpus referred to by terms related to law (torah in Hebrew and nomos in Greek), Genesis poses a problem, as it contains relatively little legal material, and takes place prior to the formal giving of the law at Sinai. This dissertation looks at the ways in which Jews in the second temple period grappled with the place and role of Genesis in the Torah, as they relate to halakhah, and focuses on the following questions: What was the status of the Law prior to Sinai?	cache/kh04dn42z3d.txt	txt/kh04dn42z3d.txt