In the Torah, God commands, "Do not add anything to what I am commanding you, and do not decrease…” (Deuteronomy 4:2). But did ancient Jews in fact find ways of changing the commandments?
Prof. Bernard M. Levinson of the University of Minnesota will explore this question on Wednesday, May 2, 7:30 p.m.%u2028, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
His lecture is titled: “‘You Must Not Add Anything to What I Command You’: Paradoxes of Canon and Authorship in Ancient Israel.”
This lecture is sponsored by University Lectures Committee and the Department of Hebrew & Semitic Studies, with the support of the Ettinger Family Foundation; and it is co-sponsored by the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies and the Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions.
For more information, contact the Department of Hebrew & Semitic Studies, hebrew@mailplus.wisc.edu.
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