Abstract

This paper evaluates two theories of divine revelation due to the Jewish analytic theologians Samuel Lebens and Jerome Gellman. Specifically, it investigates how well those two theories explain a claim about divine revelation implied in some Jewish sources: the claim that divine revelation comes in degrees. After showing how some sources imply that divinely revealed texts vary in the degree to which they are divinely revealed, the paper argues that Gellman’s moderate-providence-based theory of revelation explains this claim better than Lebens's divine-appropriation-based theory does.