Biblical criticism
The original critical scholarship.
The Torah’s unity and God’s.
A leading professor explains how the two can coexist properly.
Samson Raphael Hirsch wades into an intra-Christian controversy.
Can we believe the Torah? And can we find therein political wisdom?
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.)