Prof. Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg is Associate Professor in the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from the University of Chicago and is the author of The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible (Princeton, 2023) and The Abrahamic Vernacular (Cambridge, 2024).
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In the second century C.E., 4 Ezra and Irenaeus tell a story of how the Torah was burned by Nebuchadnezzar and reconstructed by Ezra through divine inspiration. Rabbinic texts know of this tradition, but in their version, Ezra’s contribution is changing the Torah into Aramaic writing, or even Aramaic language.
In the second century C.E., 4 Ezra and Irenaeus tell a story of how the Torah was burned by Nebuchadnezzar and reconstructed by Ezra through divine inspiration. Rabbinic texts know of this tradition, but in their version, Ezra’s contribution is changing the Torah into Aramaic writing, or even Aramaic language.
