Drawing Contemporary Jews Closer to the Torah

In point of fact, the Hebrew Bible is so complicated that it does sometimes interpret itself! This is referred to in scholarship as “Inner-Biblical Exegesis” and has been discussed at length in Michael Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988). For one example of this, see Robert Harris’ TABS essay, “The Cow that Laid an Egg (!): Korban Chagigah from the Torah to the Seder Plate.”