When Satmar met Bible criticism.
On reading the Hebrew Bible in a spirit of intellectual honesty without losing your faith.
Academic Bible scholars should abandon their fixation on dating biblical texts.
The strengths and weaknesses of a recent study.
An impressive but flawed new book tries to do so.
To read the Bible as a great work, one must assume that it’s something more than a hodgepodge of disparate texts.
Samson Raphael Hirsh’s critique of biblical criticism.
Source criticism has failed, and a systemic bias pervades academic biblical studies. But computational linguistics promises to open up the Bible in new and reliable ways.
(Although not always.)
Biblical criticism is never value-free. In itself that’s not a problem; the problem arises when readers don’t know what worldview a particular scholar brings to his or her work.
Don’t dismiss all perspectives of contemporary biblical scholarship as the imaginative or tainted products of liberal bias.
There is a liberal slant in biblical studies, but it has an older and more persistent source than merely the general liberalism or leftism of today’s academy.
Academic scrutiny of scripture, a discipline prey to intellectual fashion since its inception, is today pursued by many in the service of secular liberal positions.
Breaking down the firewall between the Bible and Jewish tradition.
The most polished writing and
sharpest analysis in the Jewish world.