Book Review: The Dawn of Redemption
Reviews Rabbi Dr. Meir Levin's The Dawn of Redemption (Urim Publications, 2009), praising its rabbinically-grounded readings of Ruth and Jonah as sources of guidance on alienation and return, while questioning Levin's tendency to present rabbinic literature as a monolithic 'view of the Sages' and his relatively thin engagement with the philosophical implications of intergenerational repair in Ruth.
Erder reviews Rabbi Dr. Meir Levin’s The Dawn of Redemption, a rabbinically-grounded commentary on Ruth and Jonah originally published as a series on torah.org. He praises Levin’s skill at fleshing out biblical characters through rabbinic sources, particularly in the Jonah commentary’s engagement with modern scholarship, but flags a tendency to treat rabbinic literature as a uniform “view of the Sages” and a lack of deeper philosophical grounding for the book’s central theme of intergenerational repair.
Mattan Erder was a founding editor of Kol Hamevaser and is a graduate of Yeshiva University's Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at Yeshiva College. He is a rabbinical student at the RIETS Israel Kollel in Jerusalem.
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Mattan Erder. "Book Review: The Dawn of Redemption." Jewish Bible Quarterly 38, no. 4 (October – December 2010): 261–264.
Mattan Erder. "Book Review: The Dawn of Redemption." Jewish Bible Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4, 2010, pp. 261–264.