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Fixing God's Torah: The Accuracy of the Hebrew Bible Text in Jewish Law

Author Levy, B. Barry
Publisher Oxford University Press
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ISBN / ASIN019514113X
ISBN-139780195141139
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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.