On "fractures" in the Torah

THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Why We Can Read the Torah, Fractures and All.

I embrace the text with all its beautiful imperfections, and my concern is not to dismiss the idea that it has a history but to understand that history better. I want to encourage us to see the fractures not as barriers to reading but as protrusions of past textual landscapes that prompt us to read in two dimensions at once: vertical and horizontal, historical and literary.

See also The Wilderness Narratives in the Hebrew Bible: Religion, Politics, and Biblical Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 2025).

By Angela Roskop Erisman
Independent Researcher
https://angelaroskoperisman.com
June 2025

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