Fixing God's Torah : the accuracy of the Hebrew Bible text in Jewish law
Levy, B. Barry
Fixing God's Torah : the accuracy of the Hebrew Bible text in Jewish law - Oxford [England] ; New York Oxford University Press 2001 - 237 23
"This study explores talmudic, midrashic, medieval, renaissance, and modern rabbinic works that address the question of the letter-perfect accuracy of the Bible text. It is particularly attentive to the writings of Rabbis Meir Abulafia, Solomon ben Adret, Menahem Meiri, and David Ibn Zimra, as well as others who lived between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. The documents analyzed here have been chosen from Bible commentaries, responsa, halakhic codes, guidebooks for scribes, studies of Bible manuscripts and the printed Bible, and many other rabbinic works. In presenting these sources, many translated here for the first time, B. Barry Levy explores the various rabbinic attempts to fix the Bible text - to correct it and to establish its authoritative spelling. This will interest students and scholars of biblical studies and of Judaism."--Jacket.
0-19-514113-X
Bible. -- Old Testament -- Canon. David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra, -- active 1513-1573. Masorah.
Fixing God's Torah : the accuracy of the Hebrew Bible text in Jewish law - Oxford [England] ; New York Oxford University Press 2001 - 237 23
"This study explores talmudic, midrashic, medieval, renaissance, and modern rabbinic works that address the question of the letter-perfect accuracy of the Bible text. It is particularly attentive to the writings of Rabbis Meir Abulafia, Solomon ben Adret, Menahem Meiri, and David Ibn Zimra, as well as others who lived between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. The documents analyzed here have been chosen from Bible commentaries, responsa, halakhic codes, guidebooks for scribes, studies of Bible manuscripts and the printed Bible, and many other rabbinic works. In presenting these sources, many translated here for the first time, B. Barry Levy explores the various rabbinic attempts to fix the Bible text - to correct it and to establish its authoritative spelling. This will interest students and scholars of biblical studies and of Judaism."--Jacket.
0-19-514113-X
Bible. -- Old Testament -- Canon. David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra, -- active 1513-1573. Masorah.