A key tenet of Jewish faith, and the main theme of Shavuot (the festival of weeks), is the belief that there was a Divine revelation at Sinai. This 2 part class explores various interpretations of that event, and various theories of Jewish revelation in general. In part 1, we explore a much neglected puzzle regarding the revelation of the Torah.
Our texts will span the ages from Philo through the Talmud and Midrash, all the way to contemporary Jewish thinkers. Our discussions will shed new light on modern critiques of traditional belief from Biblical scholarship to archaeology.
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