This essay analyzes the Torah’s role in Judean communities from Ptolemaic Egypt in order to evaluate the significance of the Judean claim of divine origins for their law in relation to the conceptual or functional nature of this law. An introductory step explores the nature of the Judean communities in Egypt under the Ptolemies. The essay then moves to consider the nature of judicial practice in Ptolemaic Egypt, especially among Judean communities, where scholars have asserted overlap with the written Greek Torah in the interpretation of legal records. Given the largely negative finds from papyri documents concerning practical judicial conceptions, the discussion turns to depictions of Torah in the Letter of Aristeas and other Hellenistic-Judean literature. The argument demonstrates that direct references to the Torah conceive of its importance in philosophical terms and group affiliation rather than judicial categories, even when the conception of God as a divine legislator emerges.

本文分析托拉在埃及托勒密时期的犹太社区中所扮演的角色，以评估犹太教关于神圣起源的法律的重要性，与该法律的概念或功能性质相关。介绍性步骤探讨了托勒密时代埃及犹太社区的性质。然后，本文开始考虑托勒密埃及司法实践的性质，特别是在犹太社区中，学者们声称在解释法律记录方面与书面希腊妥拉有重叠。鉴于纸莎草纸文件中关于实际司法概念的大部分负面发现，讨论转向阿里斯蒂亚斯的信和其他希腊-犹太文学中对托拉的描述。该论点表明，直接引用托拉认为它在哲学术语和团体归属而不是司法范畴，即使出现了上帝作为神圣立法者的概念。