Jewish Concepts of Scripture

250 Marc Zvi Brettler commentary omits such notes because he is very reliant on the MT, the standard Hebrew text that crystalliz ...

Concepts of Scripture in Moshe Greenberg 251 Greenberg’s Biblical Text: Final Form versus Prehistory Much of biblical scholarshi ...

252 Marc Zvi Brettler of explicating Ezekiel,23 and he used that method throughout his two vol- umes on Ezekiel and in several e ...

Concepts of Scripture in Moshe Greenberg 253 biblical text as part of ancient Near Eastern literature on the one hand, and of th ...

254 M a r c Zvi Brettler Defying Illegal Orders: Amasa, Abner, and Joab” was fi rst off ered at a gath- ering marking the Vietna ...

Concepts of Scripture in Moshe Greenberg 255 “existential values” should we off er priority? Which of the various bibli- cal tex ...

256 Marc Zvi Brettler and what is less important, what is time-bound and what is eternal.” Th e sages, for example, determine wh ...

Concepts of Scripture in Moshe Greenberg 257 For Greenberg, the Bible is both necessary and, through its later inter- pretations ...

258 M a r c Zvi Brettler criticizes others’ “prosaic pedantry” in their suggested reworkings of Eze- kiel’s poetry and claims, “ ...

Concepts of Scripture in Moshe Greenberg 259 In the introduction, “Purpose and Method,” to Understanding Exo- dus, Greenberg not ...

260 M a r c Zvi Brettler denying the centrality of certain passages (4). Finally, the Bible is not only of great consequence for ...

Concepts of Scripture in Moshe Greenberg 261 the more we read and reread this kind of [rabbinic] text and it becomes lodged in o ...

262 Marc Zvi Brettler Judaism. As I have shown, this vision is infl uenced by his upbringing and his mentors. But there is one m ...

Concepts of Scripture in Moshe Greenberg 263 See chapter 13 in this volume by Job Jindo. Greenberg, “Kaufmann,” in Studies in t ...

264 Marc Zvi Brettler 1998), 40 – 46; and Emanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, 2nd rev. ed. (Minneapolis: Fortres ...

Concepts of Scripture in Moshe Greenberg 265 Greenberg, “Faith-ful Critical Interpretation,” 211; Greenberg, introduction to St ...

266 M a r c Zvi Brettler Berlin, and others. (In conversation, Greenberg has emphasized his kinship with the literary approach o ...

267 Chapter 15 Concepts of Scripture in Mordechai Breuer Shalom Carmy To most outsiders who have heard of Rabbi Mordechai Breuer ...

268 S h a l o m Carmy “theory of aspects” (torat ha-beh.inot), eventually writing several books of applied studies. On the one h ...

Concepts of Scripture in Mordechai Breuer 269 can be traced to divine authorship but also that they cannot be ascribed to one hu ...