Revelation Restored: Divine Writ And Critical Responses

by David Weiss Halivni

Overview

In this thought-provoking book, David Weiss Halivni asserts that the act of acknowledging and accounting for inconsistencies in the Pentateuchal text is not alien to the Biblical or Rabbinic tradition and need not belie the tradition of revelation. Moreover, the author argues that through recognizing textual problems in the scriptures, as well as e

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429977251
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/20/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	818 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Foreword: Revelation Restored as Postcritical Theology, Foreword: A Christian Perspective, Acknowledgments, 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, Afterword: Continuous Revelation, Notes, About the Book and Author, Subject Index, Index of Textual References, Index of Names

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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