Jewish Concepts of Scripture

10 Benjamin D. Sommer centuries responded to modern theories about the Pentateuch not only lays out several schools of modern Je ...

Introduction 11 know and law codes attributed to Moses that later became parts of the Pen- tateuch. Th us, even before there was ...

12 Benjamin D. Sommer See ibid., 134a – b, and cf. 141b. See also the discussion of Talmud as “para- scripture” in Wilfred Cant ...

Introduction 13 Talmuds and classical midrashim are part of it, but so are some (though not all) comments made by both students ...

14 Benjamin D. Sommer that to this day multivolume editions with commentary, most oft en consisting of the Pentateuch alone (or ...

15 Chapter 2 Concepts of Scripture in the Synagogue Service Elsie Stern For most contemporary Jews, the “Jewish Bible” is a sing ...

16 Elsie Stern Th is sociological reality has important implications for our understand- ing of Jewish scripture. In theory, the ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Synagogue Service 17 reading consists of a reading from the Pentateuch (hereaft er, parashah, pl. p ...

18 Elsie Stern parshiyot of about three chapters each.6 Including the haft arot for festivals and special Sabbaths, there are ei ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Synagogue Service 19 the narratives of the Pentateuch are intensely theological. Th e relationship ...

20 Elsie Stern punishment and redemption. Both corpora also include texts that portray the relationship between God and Israel a ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Synagogue Service 21 Immediately aft er this genealogical notice, Abram begins to function as a cha ...

22 Elsie Stern comment on moments in the Abraham story when the protagonist seems lacking in absolute confi dence in God, overal ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Synagogue Service 23 preted as fasting from food and drink in addition to other abstentions) and th ...

24 Elsie Stern recitation of the haft arah provides a bulwark against complete reliance on ritual, the recitation of the Levitic ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Synagogue Service 25 and reconciliation.14 Within this sequence, the haft arot of consolation ar- t ...

26 Elsie Stern that asserts that because God loves Israel and because God is the master of history, God will necessarily use God ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Synagogue Service 27 is encountered as a written text, the fi rst tendency, that which asserts its ...

28 Elsie Stern understanding of the text. Even with these uncertainties about actual lec- tionary performances in late antiquity ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Synagogue Service 29 the parashah and the haft arah represented the most concentrated presence of s ...