[Avodah] Each tribe had different Torah?

[Jonathan Baker]

From: Zev Sero <zev at sero.name>
> Daniel Eidensohn wrote:
 
> > Pesikta DeRav Cahane[1] <#_ftn1>**(Appendix 1): *R? Huna sated that 
> > Moshe wrote 13 Sefer Torahs. Twelve were for the 12 Tribes and one was 
> > given to Levi?im so that if one of Tribes wanted to elminate anything 
> > from the Torah ? the Levi?im would be able to produce their Sefer Torah 
> > and correct the false text.
 
> What if Shevet Levi decided to change their Torah? ...  Why single out
> Levi as the tribe least likely to want to change things?

Because R' Huna was a Kohen? 

Note that this is not the Rav Huna the Babylonian Amora, and talmid of
Rav, but a 4th-century EY person.  From the Encyclopedia Judaica (new ed.):

: HUNA (Huna, Hunya, Nehunya) BEN AVIN HA-KOHEN (mid-fourth century C.E.),
: Palestinian amora. His full name appears in the Pesikta Rabbati (5:15b
: et al.). Huna was born in Babylon, where he studied under R. Joseph,
: but immigrated to Erez Israel, and he gives a personal account of this
: immigration (TJ, RH 2:2, 58a). He is seldom mentioned in the Babylonian
: Talmud, but very frequently in the Jerusalem Talmud and Palestinian
: Midrashim, both in halakhah and aggadah....
: accepted as an authority in practical halakhah (TJ, Shev. 6:1, 36d;
: MK 1:2, 80b; BB 52b, 55a; et al.).

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