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A first attempt to bring scholars and rabbis together around the question of how religious belief in the divine revelation at Sinai can be combined with critical Bible study. The volume contains twenty-one essays by contemporary Jewish academics and thinkers on the relationship between faith and the source-critical study of the Bible.
Sommario
Introduction
Preface to the English Translation
Acknowledgments
Annotated Anthology¿¿Wisdom and Knowledge Will be Given to Yoü
Yoshi FargeonArticlesGeneral Overview
A Personal Perspective on Biblical History, the Authorship of the Torah, and Belief in its Divine Origin
Shawn Zelig AsterThe Sages as Bible Critics
Yehuda BrandesThe Tanakh as History
Marc Zvi BrettlerKabbalah as a Shield against the ¿Scourge¿ of Biblical Criticism: A Comparative Analysis of the Torah Commentaries of Elia Benamozegh and Mordecai Breuer
Adiel CohenOrthodoxy and the Challenge of Biblical Criticism: Some Reflections on the Importance of Asking the Right Question
Tamar RossAsk the Rabbi: ¿Biblical Criticism is Destroying my Religious Faith!¿
Yuval CherlowThe Theophany at Sinai and the Passages of Revelation¿I Shall Fear God Alone and Not Show Favor in Torah¿: A Conceptual Foundation for Wrestling with Biblical Scholarship
David BigmanRevelation and Religious Authority in the Sinai Traditions
Benjamin SommerThe Torah Speaks to People
Chezi CohenThe Revelation Narratives: Analyses and Theological Reflections on Exodus, Deuteronomy, and Classical Midrash
Avraham ShammahThe Ethical ChallengeThe Binding of Isaac and Historical Contextuality
Chayuta DeutschManasseh, King of Judah, in Early rabbinic Literature: An Erudite, Unfettered, and Creative Biblical Critic
Hananel MackJustification, Denial, and ¿Terraforming¿: Three Theological-Exegetical Models
Amit KulaThe Bible in Historical ContextThe Names of God and the Dating of the Biblical Corpus
Yoel ElitzurDiscrepancies between Laws in the TorahJoshua BermanBetween the Prophet and his Prophecy: Ezekiel¿s Visionary Temple in its Historical Context
Tova GanzelThe Torah of Moses and the Laws of the Nations: A Study in the Teachings of Rabbi Tzadok Ha-Kohen of Lublin
Avia HacohenIlluminating Inscriptions
Yaakov MedanArchaeology and the Bible
Haggai MisgavThe Book of Daniel and the Twenty-First-Century Religious Bible Student
Rivka Raviv
Info autore
Yehuda Brandes is President of Herzog College in Gush Etzion and Jerusalem. He is the former head of the Beit Midrash at Beit Morasha in Jerusalem, and the author of many books and articles on Talmud, Jewish law, education, and Jewish philosophy. In his books
Agada Lema'aseh and
Mada Toratekha, and in many of his articles, he examines the connection between law and legend in the Talmud, exposing both the philosophical aspects of religious law and the practical aspect of the Talmudic legend.
Riassunto
The essays in this volume address the conundrum of how Jewish believers in the divine character of the Sinaitic revelation confront the essential questions raised by academic biblical studies.
The first part is an anthology of rabbinic sources, from the medieval period to the present, treating questions that reflect a critical awareness of the Bible. The second part is a series of twenty-one essays by contemporary rabbis and scholars on how they combine their religious beliefs with their critical approach to the Bible.
Testo aggiuntivo
“The Believer and the Modern Study of the Bible is an
important and accessible collection of articles. For the traditional Orthodox
Jew, curious about the ‘modern Study of the Bible,’ this is a highly
recommended first work. The book also provides fascinating insights into areas
of religious culture and sociology—demonstrating the varied intellectual
scaffolding being constructed to bridge two disciplines that are often at odds.”
—David Tesler, AJL Reviews
