The reason the book carries this range of approbations is because it cuts across typical boundaries, blending traditional approaches to the development of the Oral Torah or Torah she-baal peh with up- ...
Rabbi Elazar ben Yossi HaGelili who lived in the first half of the 2nd century ... the exodus from Egypt will be replaced in the Jewish psyche by the [Messianic Age] ingathering of the exiles.