Jewish Concepts of Scripture

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Jewish Concepts of Scripture A Comparative Introduction Edited by Benjamin D. Sommer a New York University Press New York and Lo ...

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London http://www.nyupress.org © 2012 by New York University All rights reserved Referenc ...

,יתַל ַבּ ִ ֵמ ֵע ֶבר ,ָשׁם ,ָבּ ֹא ֶפק ָה ִא ְלּ ִמים יּי ֶהםַח ֵ ֶאת ַח ִיּים ָהעוֹ ִטים ,ַה ִנּ ְשׁ ִפּים ֶה ָהִרים ,אָ ֹפר ְבּ ָצ ִעיף ס ...

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vii Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction: Scriptures in Jewish Tradition, and Traditions as Jewish Scripture 1 Benjamin D. ...

viii Contents 11 Concepts of Scripture in Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig 179 Jonathan Cohen 12 Th e Pentateuch as Scripture a ...

ix Acknowledgments I am grateful to Jennifer Hammer from New York University Press for sug- gesting that I edit this volume and ...

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1 Chapter 1 Introduction Scriptures in Jewish Tradition, and Traditions as Jewish Scripture Benjamin D. Sommer On one level, the ...

2 Benjamin D. Sommer For example, are copying it, decorating it, or marching around a sacred space with it commendable ways to s ...

Introduction 3 Nakh. While Jewish beliefs fl ow from and to some degree claim to be based on the whole Tanakh, Jewish law — the ...

4 Benjamin D. Sommer of self-contradiction.10 Here again, rabbinic literature fi ts the description just as much as the Bible do ...

Introduction 5 Th e modern Jewish thinker Moshe Halbertal distinguishes between two types of canon, which he calls normative and ...

6 Benjamin D. Sommer imports a Protestant Christian notion of scripture into Judaism and thus misrepresents the tradition it is ...

Introduction 7 it is said.” For centuries, most Jews knew the Bible primarily from hearing it chanted. Many Jews memorized large ...

8 Benjamin D. Sommer until fairly recently. For contemporary Jews, the idea that one might have a conception of “the Bible” seem ...

Introduction 9 more relevant, more malleable, and more interesting than they have found rabbinic literature and other Jewish rel ...