Revelation Restored: Divine Writ And Critical Responses

by David Weiss Halivni

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367317720
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/2019
Pages:	138
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Writing with an unsurpassed command of the full span of rabbinic sources, Halivni has produced a tremendously important book, confronting the 'maculation' of scripture, those blemishes that have accrued to the revealed text. . . .As a sustained meditation on scripture and tradition, this book should be read with great profit by anyone, Jew or gentile, interested in critically engaging the Bible and its exegesis.

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