Judaism, Academic Scholarship

On the Relationship between Academic and Traditional Torah Study

Dr. Rabbi

Avital Hochstein

The Torah is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

Prof. Rabbi

Dalia Marx

Biblical Criticism Is Not Science

Dr. Rabbi

Yoel Bin-Nun

Children Should Be Taught the Myth that Torah Is from Sinai

Prof. Rabbi

Yossi Turner

Biblical Literalism Makes Judaism a Withered Tree

Prof. Rabbi

Arthur Green

The Torah Is a Record of a Divine-Human Encounter

Rabbi

Rick Jacobs

God as an Author Is Akin to Idolatry

Dr. Rabbi

Haviva Ner-David

Reconstructionism Reconciles Rationalism and Revelation

Dr. Rabbi

Deborah Waxman

Is it Halakhically Permissible to Study Source Criticism?

Prof. Rabbi

David Golinkin

How to Not Address Source Criticism

Dr. Rabbi

Adam Mintz

Source Critics May Be Right, but the Torah Has the Power to Change the World

Dr. Rabbi

Shmuly Yanklowitz

The Torah’s Essence Does Not Lie in Its Origin

Prof. Rabbi

Shaul Magid

Torah is from Heaven, Don’t Confuse Mechanics with Philosophy

Dr. Rabbi

Bradley Shavit Artson

Seek Meaning, and You Shall Find

Prof.

Edward L. Greenstein

My Abandoned Quest to Integrate Orthodoxy and Biblical Criticism

When I encountered TheTorah.com, I experienced a moment of déjà vu. In the early 1970s, I majored in Bible at Yeshiva University and spent my junior year abroad in Jerusalem studying with Hebrew University Bible professors. My goal was to grapple with questions of Pentateuchal criticism in a way that would be meaningful and beneficial for an Orthodox Jew. But then I dropped it. Here is my story.

Dr. Rabbi

Natan Ophir (Offenbacher)

The Bible Is a Book of Questions, Not Answers

Prof.

Francis Landy

Having Our Bible and Criticizing It Too

Prof.

James Kugel

The Bible, an “Axe for the Frozen Sea Inside Me”

Prof.

Rachel Adelman

Conflict? What Conflict? Religious Tradition and Biblical Criticism

Prof.

Benjamin D. Sommer

Tanakh and My Search for Jewish Identity

Prof.

Carl S. Ehrlich

Kiyyum Mitzvot and Biblical Criticism: Holding On to the One Without Letting Go of the Other (Eccl. 7:18)

Prof.

Baruch J. Schwartz

From “Kosher Cop” to Academic Bible Scholar

Prof.

Marc Zvi Brettler

A Conduit to the Divine That Enriches Our Lives

Dr. Rabbi

Jeremy Rosen

Biblical Authority: A Jewish Pluralistic View

Prof.

Marc Zvi Brettler

How Can a Torah Commentary Be Source-Critical and Jewish?

Prof.

Baruch J. Schwartz

The Benefits of Studying Torah with Modern Biblical Scholarship

Project TABS Editors

Is Modern Critical Study a Jewish Way of Studying Torah?

The works of medieval exegetes such as Maimonides, Rashbam and Ibn Ezra demonstrate that Judaism has a long-standing tradition of studying the Torah critically.

Prof. Rabbi

Marty Lockshin

The Multifaceted Revelation at Sinai

Prof.

Marc Zvi Brettler

Sacred Mountains: Connecting the Revelation at Horeb and the Aqedah

Traditional and Critical Approaches

Prof.

Richard Elliott Friedman

Torah for an Interconnected and Changing World

A Shavuot tribute to TheTorah.com on its 8th anniversary (and my 88th birthday).

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