Challenges and defends, rereads and reinterprets ancient texts, revealing to modern readers a way to see Judaism anew, for a new vision-a "revision"-of the Torah. Boldly brings the Torah into a contemporary context while honestly reconciling its past.
Challenges and defends, rereads and reinterprets ancient texts, revealing to modern readers a way to see Judaism anew, for a new vision-a "revision"-of the Torah. Boldly brings the Torah into a contemporary context while honestly reconciling its past.
What does it mean to re-vision Torah? "I use the title ReVisions for this book because I want readers both to revise--in the classic definition of reexamine and alter--and to see the text anew, to have a new vision, a 'revision, ' of Torah.... It begins with the...