anyway.



thread: 2007-01-10 : Some questions about worship

On 2007-01-19, NinJ wrote:

I would call the kernel the entirety of the primary text, with all its seeming contradictions that seems to demand the layers and layers of commentary.

Ah, yeah, I think I was misreading you: you're saying the "kernel" is the Tanakh itself; that doesn't change over time, but its meaning does, through Midrash. Right? I'm just considering that meaning, the living part, to be the kernel. I mean, literarily, the Tanakh is the kernel, but practically, as a religious tool, as moral instruction, the ever-evolving meaning is the kernel.



 

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