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Jewish Interpretation of the Bible: Ancient and Contemporary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although Jewish tradition gives tremendous importance to the Hebrew Bible, from the beginning Jewish interpretation of those Scriptures has been practiced with remarkable freedom. Karin Hedner Zetterholm introduces the legal, theological, and historical presuppositions that shaped the dominant stream of rabbinic interpretation, including Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrashim, discussing examples of...

expanded to include all of the Hebrew Bible, referring also to the parts known as the Prophets and the Writings. Eventually, “Torah” came to be used also to designate the explanations, interpretations, and applications that according to the rabbis accompanied the Bible, and the idea arose of a dual Torah, one written (the Hebrew Bible) and one oral (interpretations of the Written Torah), both originating at the moment of revelation. Thus, Torah in its most expanded sense refers to the entire revelation
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