Thursday, November 13, 2014

Sanders on the aporia of the Torah

SETH SANDERS: The Early History of Scriptural Unreason.
Here is where we can grasp Hebrew literature’s original aporia, in the gap between the Torah and its readers that made it sometimes seem so problematic and irrational. How did the Torah first become a puzzle to its early tradents, a problem to be solved?
Asking the important questions.