The Believer and the Modern Study of the Bible

Tova Ganzel, Yehudah Brandes, Chayuta Deutsch (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

582 Seiten

2019
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-61811-951-3 (ISBN)

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Addresses the conundrum of how Jewish believers in the divine character of the Sinaitic revelation confront the questions raised by academic biblical studies. The first part of the book is an anthology of rabbinic sources. The second part is a series of essays by scholars on how they combine religious beliefs with a critical approach to the Bible.

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.

Tova Ganzel is the Director of the Midrasha at Bar-Ilan University and one the first trained women’s halakhic advisors (Yoatzot Halacha). She received her PhD from Bar-Ilan’s Department of Bible Studies, and is a renowned figure in the world of women’s Jewish learning. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious academic awards and grants, and is a published author.

Introduction
Preface to the English Translation
Acknowledgments
Annotated Anthology—“Wisdom and Knowledge Will be Given to You”
Yoshi Fargeon
Articles
General Overview
A Personal Perspective on Biblical History, the Authorship of the Torah, and Belief in its Divine Origin
Shawn Zelig Aster
The Sages as Bible Critics
Yehuda Brandes
The Tanakh as History
Marc Zvi Brettler
Kabbalah as a Shield against the “Scourge” of Biblical Criticism: A Comparative Analysis of the Torah Commentaries of Elia Benamozegh and Mordecai Breuer
Adiel Cohen
Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Biblical Criticism: Some Reflections on the Importance of Asking the Right Question
Tamar Ross
Ask the Rabbi: “Biblical Criticism is Destroying my Religious Faith!”
Yuval Cherlow
The 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 Bigman
Revelation and Religious Authority in the Sinai Traditions
Benjamin Sommer
The Torah Speaks to People
Chezi Cohen
The Revelation Narratives: Analyses and Theological Reflections on Exodus, Deuteronomy, and Classical Midrash
Avraham Shammah
The Ethical Challenge
The Binding of Isaac and Historical Contextuality
Chayuta Deutsch
Manasseh, King of Judah, in Early rabbinic Literature: An Erudite, Unfettered, and Creative Biblical Critic
Hananel Mack
Justification, Denial, and “Terraforming”: Three Theological-Exegetical Models
Amit Kula
The Bible in Historical Context
The Names of God and the Dating of the Biblical Corpus
Yoel Elitzur
Discrepancies between Laws in the Torah
Joshua Berman
Between the Prophet and his Prophecy: Ezekiel’s Visionary Temple in its Historical Context
Tova Ganzel
The Torah of Moses and the Laws of the Nations: A Study in the Teachings of Rabbi Tzadok Ha-Kohen of Lublin
Avia Hacohen
Illuminating Inscriptions
Yaakov Medan
Archaeology and the Bible
Haggai Misgav
The Book of Daniel and the Twenty-First-Century Religious Bible Student
Rivka Raviv

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2019
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-61811-951-6 / 1618119516
ISBN-13	978-1-61811-951-3 / 9781618119513
Zustand	Neuware