Wolfgang Schütte has published a book on the origin of the Kaige recension.
Agade gives the following book information:
Wolfgang Schütte, “Der Ursprung der kaige Rezension. Mit einem Nachwort zu Ps.-Aristeas, Aristobul und der Torah”, 2026, 244 pages, BoD-Verlag Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-6957-2708-7 (hardcover, 69 €), ISBN 978-3-6957-0181-0 (softcover, 32 €)
The author unpicks the theological foundation that led to the formation of the kaige recension. It is theTorah, as set out in Deuteronomy and as a coherent narrative comprising the Five Books of Moses. The legal terminology in the Books of Kings holds the key. It reveals three stages in the Jewish history of law within the Books of Samuel and Kings, which also cast the textual history of these books in a new light.
Given that the coherent narrative of the Five Books of Moses did not take shape until the Hellenistic period, the Pseudo-Aristeas letter and the earliest historical accounts of the Mosaic Torah can be reinterpreted.
Contents:
Chapter 1 (hammiṣwah – a forgottenforerunner to the DeuteronomicTorah?) describes how theDeuteronomic Torah came into beingthrough the revision of an oldertextual source, the Deuteronomicmiswah. (A first version waspreviously published in ZAW 137[2025])
Chapter 2 (The Nature of the kaigeRecension. A response to the criticism by Tim McLay) sets out the historical linguistic contexts and the textual-historical foundations for the terms “statute” and “judgement” in the Book of Kings.
Chapter 3 (kaige and the relationship between the LXX and the ANT) incorporates the textual tradition of the Antiochene minority tradition into the interpretation of the LXX kaige recension.
Chapter 4 (Why is the Torah “Law”?) describes the cultural origins of Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy forms a discursive space within which all Jewish traditional legal systems must find their place. This task paves the way for the development of the Mishnah and the Gemara. Deuteronomy strives for a unified Jewish nomos as an alternative to the Greek concept of nomos.
Chapter 5 (Pseudo-Aristeas, Aristobulus and the Torah) interprets the Letter of Pseudo-Aristeas as a promotional text for the Deuteronomistic version of what is now a coherent narrative of the Five Books of Moses, and situates the remaining historical textual evidence concerning the Torah within this interpretative framework.
