1st Edition
Revelation Restored Divine Writ And Critical Responses
By David Weiss Halivni
Copyright 1998
138 Pages
by
Routledge
138 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
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Routledge
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Modern critical scholars divide the Pentateuch into distinct components, identifying areas of unevenness in the scriptural tradition, which point to several interwoven documents rather than one immaculate whole. While the conclusions reached by such critical scholarship are still matters of dispute, the inconsistencies which it has identified stand clearly before us and pose a serious challenge to... Read more
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
Biography
David Weiss Halivni is Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization at Columbia University.
