@article{11ebe7f5559e48dc95281e1493f9c475,
title = "Levi and Levites in the second temple period",
author = "Cana Werman",
note = "Funding Information: * This work was supported by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. 1 These two questions were recently discussed by J. Kugel, {"}Levi's Elevation to the Priesthood in Second Temple Writings,{"} HTR 86 (1993) 1-64, and by R.A. Kugler, From Patriarch to Priest: The Levi-Priestly Tradition from Aramaic Levi to Testament of Levi (SBL Early Judaism and Its Literature 9; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996). I shall present answers that differ from theirs. See Kugler for a summary of all the previous studies. 2 For the date of Aramaic Levi (early or mid-second century BCE) see Kugler, From Patriarch to Priest, 131-35. The document's priestly view is discussed by: M.E. Stone, {"}Ideal Figures and Social Context: Priest and Sage in the Early Second Temple Age,{"} 259-70. Selected Studies in Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha (SVTP 9; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991)",
year = "1997",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1163/156851797X00074",
language = "English",
volume = "4",
pages = "211--225",
journal = "Dead Sea Discoveries",
issn = "0929-0761",
publisher = "Brill Academic Publishers",
number = "2",
}