Revelation Restored: Divine Writ and Critical Responses

ISBN-13: 9780367317720 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

David Weiss Halivni

Opis

Modern critical scholars divide the Pentateuch into distinct components, identifying areas of unevenness in the scriptural tradition, which point to several interwoven documents rather than one immaculate whole. While the conclusions reached by such critical scholarship are still matters of dispute, the inconsistencies which it has identified stand

Spis treści

Introduction, The Compilers' Editorial Policy, Traditional and Critical Perspectives, The Return from Babylonian Captivity, Inconsistencies of Law, The Inviolability of Text, Ezra's Project in Review, Overcoming Maculation, The Emergence of Exegesis, An Analogy to the Babylonian Talmud, Exegesis on the Rise, The Post-Talmudic Period, Revelation Restored: Theological Consequences, Tradition and Criticism, Out of the Middle Ages, Revelation Restored

O autorze

David Weiss Halivni is Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization at Columbia University.