Dr. Rabbi Harvey Meirovich (retired) was Visiting Professor at the Zecharias Frankel (Rabbinical) College, University of Potsdam school of theology (2014-2021). Before that he taught at the Schechter Graduate School, and served a stint as the dean of the Rabbinical School (2000-2005). Before entering academia, he served as a pulpit rabbi in several cities (Toronto, London, Melbourne). Meirovich holds an M.A., D.H.L., and Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He is the author of The Battle for Tolerance and Pluralism (1997), A Vindication of Judaism: The Polemics of the Hertz Pentateuch (1998), and From Catastrophe to Home: Five Voices of the Bible (2019). A scholar of modern biblical interpretation, his current project is on Barukh Halevi Epstein’s Torah Temimah.
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To instill Jewish readers with a sense of pride in their religion, Rabbi Joseph Hertz, the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom in the early 20th century, challenged Wellhausen’s Documentary Hypothesis, especially the claim that rabbinic Judaism was a degraded form of Israelite religion. Instead, Hertz went on the offensive, comparing Christian values unfavorably to Jewish values.
To instill Jewish readers with a sense of pride in their religion, Rabbi Joseph Hertz, the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom in the early 20th century, challenged Wellhausen’s Documentary Hypothesis, especially the claim that rabbinic Judaism was a degraded form of Israelite religion. Instead, Hertz went on the offensive, comparing Christian values unfavorably to Jewish values.
