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£155.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195141139
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 29/11/2001
Width: 16.8 cm
Height: 24.2 cm
The Hebrew text of the Torah has never been finalized down to the last letter. This is important not least because Jewish law requires that Torah scrolls read publicly in the synagogue be error-free. Jewish scribes, scholars, and legal authorities have sought to overcome or narrow these differences, but to this day have not completely succeeded in doing so. This book offers an in-depth study of how rabbinic leaders of the past two millennia have dealt with questions about the text's accuracy, presenting numerous authoritative rabbinic sources, many translated here for the first time.
Preface 1 Fixing God's Torah 2 Ibn Zimra's Responsum A: The Zohar, the Talmud, and Fixing the Torah Text 3 Ibn Zimra's Responsum B: The Masorah and Fixing the Torah Text 4 Ibn Zimra's Responsum C: The Talmud, the Torah Scrolls, and Fixing the Torah Text 5 Ibn Zimra's Responsum D: Logic and Vocalizing the Torah Text 6 The Literary Background of Ibn Zimra's Responsa: Rabbi Solomon Ben Adret and the Medieval Sefardi Halakhic Literature 7 Ibn Zimra, Ben Adret, Ibn Adoniyah, the Masorah, and Fixing the Torah Text in the Sixteenth Century 8 Fixing God's Torah Since the Sixteenth Century Index

B. Barry Levy (Professor of Religious Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies, Professor of Religious Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University)

The first comprehensive study of post-massoretic rabbinical views of textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible ... excellent. * International Review of Biblical Studies *