Shane Williamson’s Reviews > Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition in Palestinian Judaism 200 BCE-400 CE > Status Update

What we find in the rabbinic conception of Torah...is the conjoining of an oral-literary culture rooted in the Second Temple period with a decidedly recent rabbinic ideology that explained the relation of that culture to prestigious written Scriptures and the human Sages who served as the guardians of tradition. (viii)