The different strands in the Torah also have intent, we just have less contemporary literature to compare them to.
The different strands in the Torah also have intent, we just have less contemporary literature to compare them to.
💯. We see some of that in the various documentary hypotheses (JEPD etc)
I like the fact that the Tanakh preserves multiple, contradictory traditions, sometimes seeming to argue with each other, sometimes making weird compromises. It feels very Jewish.
Very much agree. I think it’s an aspect of ancient and modern Judaism that the Christian traditions could really benefit from emulating! I’m rather glad that I’m part of a denomination which has several formal statements that start along the lines of “we do not have a single mind on this”