Sforno’s Threefold Approach to the Torah’s Structure

Classical exegetes’ exploration of structure and order in the Pentateuch is generally perceived as part of an internal-Jewish debate. However, in an exceptional testimonial, the introduction to R. Ovadiah Sforno’s Torah commentary describes a polemic against the Torah grounded in a claim about the T...

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Main Author: Sklarz, Miriam (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: The review of rabbinic Judaism
Year: 2020, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 260-278
Further subjects:B Religious Polemics
B Sforno
B order in the Pentateuch
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