prophet would offer a torah of his own, but one that had of course ‘evolved’ from the original Torah. In the same way today the People of God have had to learn from God a new torah on such issues as slavery, and social and economic justice, and even on such new issues in this age of science as abortion and the use of nuclear power. At this point, however, we see how TI’s preaching takes the form of a new torah for the postexilic age. We can contrast his wide views with the ‘fundamentalism’ of Ezra