Fixing God's Torah : the accuracy of the Hebrew Bible text in Jewish law

By:

Levy, B. Barry

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford [England] ; New York Oxford University Press 2001Description: 237 23ISBN:

0-19-514113-X

Subject(s):

Bible. -- Old Testament -- Canon. David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra, -- active 1513-1573. Masorah

Summary: "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.

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"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.

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