Jewish Concepts of Scripture

30 Elsie Stern All English translations are from the New Revised Standard Version (1989). See m. Yoma 8:9 for an early rabbinic ...

31 Chapter 3 Concepts of Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism Oral Torah and Written Torah Steven D. Fraade Introduction If at the cent ...

32 Steven D. Fraade apprehended except in tandem with and as interpreted by its accompany- ing Oral Torah. Eventually (when exac ...

Concepts of Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism 33 expressions within rabbinic literature (that is, Oral Torah) as it evolved in anony ...

34 Steven D. Fraade the rabbinic emphasis on the orality of rabbinic discourse, in contrast to the writtenness of Scripture? We ...

Concepts of Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism 35 a bet, and this is a gimmel. Just as you have accepted [received] this [the alphabe ...

36 Steven D. Fraade received, so too the other (two Torahs). Of course, one need not accept this postulate, but without doing so ...

Concepts of Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism 37 [B] R. H.aggai [ca. 350 CE] said: R. Samuel bar R. Isaac once entered a synagogue. ...

38 Steven D. Fraade diff erent people play the roles of reader/revealer and translator/transmit- ter, the third incident (in par ...

Concepts of Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism 39 Were we to think of Oral Torah as being derivative from Written Torah, or of less d ...

40 Steven D. Fraade Returning to the Palestinian Talmud, the statements attributed to R. Yo h.anan and R. Judah b. R. Simeon (F) ...

Concepts of Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism 41 with him, and he shall read [from the root qr’ ] it all the days of his life, in or ...

42 Steven D. Fraade Ano ther interpretation: Just as with rain, you cannot see [anticipate] it until it arrives, as it says, “An ...

Concepts of Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism 43 tell him in the study of ’aggadah. Th us, that man remains in one place and is fi l ...

44 Steven D. Fraade tradition of their continual and variegated human interpretation remains a radical one — especially because ...

Concepts of Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism 45 For the two earliest rabbinic statements that “Two Torahs were given to Is- rael ( ...

46 Steven D. Fraade and ends with yir’ah (“fear, awe,” from the root yr’), creating an inclusio based on a word play. Th e prop ...

47 Chapter 4 Concepts of Scripture in the Schools of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael Azzan Yadin-Israel Once a year, Israel celebr ...

48 Azzan Yadin-Israel One of the challenges facing historically conscious collectives is how to assert their identities over tim ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Schools of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael 49 Rabbi Ishmael and the Sifre Numbers belong to one group ...