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Revelation Restored: Divine Writ And Critical Responses (Radical Traditions) (Hardcover)

~ David W Halivni (Author)

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Renowned Judaic scholar David Weiss Halivni explores internal inconsistencies in the Pentateuch and examines the question of how the Rabbinic tradition has been able to accommodate evidence of human intervention in a text that derives its authority from divine revelation.

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David Weiss Halivni is Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization at Columbia University. He is the author of the nine-volume commentary Sources and Traditions and Revelation Restored: Divine Writ and Critical Responses (WestviewPress 1997).

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Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Westview Press; illustrated edition edition (September 18, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813333466
ISBN-13: 978-0813333465
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ezra Restored the Revelation Given to Moses., February 20, 1999

By	Max Harris (max4dialog@earthlink.net) (St Paul, Minnesota) - See all my reviews

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In this fascinating and provocative book, Rabbi Halivni is arguing that although the written Torah -- the Chumash or Pentateuch -- was most probably "compiled" by Ezra and his entourage after the return from the Babylonian exile, it is nonetheless still 'Holy Writ' because the work of Ezra was a successful "restoration" of the Torah given to Moses. Although Halivni probably does not mean that the structure and textual surface of the Chumash closely resembles whatever written Torah crossed the Jordan with Joshua, Halivni does most likely mean that the content of the Chumash reliably expresses the content of the Sinaitic revelation, and contains remnants of whatever writings Moses produced or had produced during the Sinai sojourn.

If there is some uncertainty about Halivni's views concerning the superficial similarity of the Chumash with the original written Torah, it is because Halivni's focus is on the evidence for and theological implications of the notion that the present written Torah is the product of a restorative project by Ezra and his entourage. Halivni argues that the very fact that the Chumash contains uncertain passages, self-contradictions, and laws at variance with the Oral Torah, means that the compilers were working with source documents that were already considered so sacred that the compilers felt they could not make any corrections to the text being compiled. They selected and arranged the scriptural heritage, but they dared not correct it or add to it. Their project was to "restore" a unified written Torah from the strands and traditions available to them. They operated more like those who restore damaged paintings, than as painters.

Halivni aims to show that traditional Judaism can survive the onslaught of critical scholarship because the probablility that the written Torah is a composite document compiled from strands and traditions doesn't mean that it isn't a trustworthy "restoration" of the Torah given to Moses. If the component strands and traditions were various reliable witnesses to, or remanants of, the original Sinaitic revelation, then a restorative compilation of those trustworthy witnesses renders a written Torah which is Holy Writ.

There are many interesting sub-arguments in this book, all insightful, and I highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in Jewish Biblical Criticism or theology of revelation.

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5.0 out of 5 stars very interesting . . ., July 9, 2002

By	Michael Lewyn (Jacksonville, FL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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for the reasons stated by another reviewer. But this book does beg a few questions. I think Halivni could have gone into more detail about his reasons for believing the Torah's text is imperfect - perhaps by discussing in more depth classical commentators' attempts to explain away those imperfections, and then responding to those attempts. And the entire argument begs a question: if the written Torah is imperfect, how can the oral Torah be any less so?

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1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, November 30, 2003

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The author attempts to revicit his methodology in Talmudic studies on biblical studies, without really doing it. He creates a philosophy called Chatu Israel, which means that the text of the bible was lost, but he does not deal with it specifically.

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