Endnote 14 – I: The Text Behind the Text of the Hebrew Bible

Sukkah 20a. Hillel’s “establishment of the Torah” has, of course, been taken heretofore more generally to apply to his role in the interpretation of oral and written law, or even figuratively to his exemplary “living the Torah” Cf. E. E. Urbach, The Sages, Their Concepts and Beliefs (Magnes: Jerusalem, 1975), p. 588 and n. 91 (p. 955).