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

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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.

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