It was almost a throw away comment, coming in the last half hour of a four part lecture series on “Truth and History in the Bible.” But in it lies the germ of revolution, with the power to rock traditional understandings of Jewish history, religion and the even the very underpinnings of rabbinic authority.
The comment: that the first book of the Torah was not Genesis but Deuteronomy. Or, to put it perhaps more accurately: the other four books of the Pentateuch did not become authoritative until after Deuteronomy.
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