Biblical Criticism

To explain that, I would need a long conversation with you about what is G-d and how G-d talks to people and why....

Everyone has a right to an opinion. It is inevitable, however, that certain opinions will carry more weight than others

It appears in his last book, Moses and Monotheism, a strange work if ever there was one. It was published in 1939, by which time Freud had taken refuge in Britain...

Did the Torah really come from heaven, or is it a product of powerful human imagination? An unapologetic response to bible criticism.

Was Torah progressive enough in its creation? Is capital punishment just? What about slavery and animal sacrifices mentioned in the Torah? Questions and Answers to Bible Criticism

Question: I was recently reading a commentary on the Book of Daniel. Its introduction contended that Daniel's apocalyptic Messianic prophesies are all most easily explained as referring to the history of the Jews from Babylonia through the Chanukah wars. ...

Question: Hello rabbi. I need help. I have been a fairly good Jew for a big part of my life. I celebrate all the holidays. I still teach my son the current parshah with age appropriate materials. I even put on tefillin most mornings, though my bar ...

Question: I read in the parsha that Joseph's brothers sold him for 20 silver pieces. I also have a nudnik brother and I could use some silver. How much do you think I could get for him? Response: I think you could be on to something here. I have no clue ...

In contrast to newfangled, secular accounts of how the Torah came to be, Jewish tradition has its own thorough account of how the Torah was recorded and transmitted.