Fixing God's Torah

Download or read book Fixing God's Torah written by B. Barry Levy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hebrew text of the Torah has never been finalized down to the last letter. This is important not least because Jewish law requires that Torah scrolls read publicly in the synagogue be error-free. Jewish scribes, scholars, and legal authorities have sought to overcome or narrow these differences, but to this day have not completely succeeded in doing so. This book offers an in-depth study of how rabbinic leaders of the past two millennia have dealt with questions about the text's accuracy, presenting numerous authoritative rabbinic sources, many translated here for the first time.