Welcome to Part 5 of My Jewish Learning's introduction to Jewish text study. Today's email tackles one of the biggest questions people have about Jewish text: The position that the Torah is divine in origin was most explicitly formulated by the medieval philosopher Maimonides, who included faith in the Torah’s divine origins as one of his cardinal principles of Judaism.
Read on as Marc Zvi Brettler, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Duke University, discusses whether or not the Torah has divine origins, and whether or not it matters.
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