Thursday, September 03, 2026

How did Prof. Emanuel Tov change his mind?

SYMPOSIUM: I CHANGED MY MIND: Revised Editions: What Right Do I Have to Try and Convince You Again? (Prof. Emanuel Tov, TheTorah.com).
On a more emotional level, I was also apprehensive about having misled a generation of readers with views that I expressed authoritatively but no longer subscribe to. With every publication of a revised edition of my work, I sensed a feeling of satisfaction. But this was mixed with some feelings of guilt that I had provided readers of previous editions with incorrect or incomplete data, or tried to convince them of perspectives that I had now abandoned.
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