Moshe Halbertal, ‘People of the Book: Canon, Meaning, and Authority’

Originally published in The Times Literary Supplement 4853 (1998), p. 32. Moshe Halbertal, People of the Book: Canon, Meaning, and Authority. 185pp. Harvard University Press. £23.50 (paperback, £12.50). 0 674 66111 7. Moshe Halbertal, who teaches Jewish thought and philosophy at the Hebrew University and at the Hartman Institute, both in Jerusalem, employs modem theories of meaning to…