{"product_id":"before-chapter-and-verse-reading-the-woven-torah-paperback","title":"Before Chapter and Verse: Reading the Woven Torah - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMoshe Kline\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWhat a \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003estimulating\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e and \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eimpressive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e work! Stimulating in the ideas and insights that it advances, and impressive in the thoughtfulness around their explication.\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRabbi Dr. David E. S. Stein, Bible scholar and editor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Torah (Five Books of Moses), as well as the rest of the Bible, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas not composed in chapters and verses. It was divided into\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echapters only in the thirteenth century CE. It took another two\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecenturies before numbered verses were used. How then was it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomposed? Is there any logic to the way its stories and laws were\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eassembled? Do its five books have clearly demarcated divisions?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan the identification of such divisions lead to deeper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunderstandings? These are among the questions that formed the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebasis of an extensive research project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore Chapter and Verse, the fruit of that research, presents a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esurprising discovery. To read the Torah as it was written, the text\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emust be arranged in columns and rows, as tables, or more properly, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eweaves. Each of the eighty-six literary units that comprise the Torah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas constructed as a warp and woof, with the stone tablets of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecalogue providing the prototype. In turn, these units were woven\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etogether in the structures that form the five books. The weaving\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanalogy applies to both the micro level of the unit and the macro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elevel of the books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore Chapter and Verse provides you with the tools to read the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTorah as it was woven. It includes an English translation of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTorah's eighty-six units, presented according to their literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estructures, as well as maps showing the structure of each book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 298\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 11 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47444577910962,"sku":"9789655982718","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/1a98540dc9d566c51eae22f59f0eee6f.webp?v=1778708441","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/before-chapter-and-verse-reading-the-woven-torah-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}