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Modern Scholarship In The Study Of Torah »

Authors: Shalom Carmy
ISBN-13: 9781568214504, ISBN-10: 1568214502
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Aronson, Jason Inc.
Date Published: July 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Shalom Carmy

Book Synopsis

_The principal thrust of this book is to challenge the compartmentalization to which we seem all too easily resigned, to discover whether, and to what extent, the methods of modern scholarship can become part and parcel of the study of Torah, conceived as a religious-intellectual way of life. Not 'Modern Scholarship and the Study of Torah,' but 'Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah._

	Preface
1	A Room with a View, but a Room of Our Own	1
2	The State and Directions of Orthodox Bible Study	39
3	Study of Bible in Light of Our Knowledge of the Ancient Near East	81
4	Rabbinic Midrash as Evidence for Textual Variants in the Hebrew Bible: History and Practice	101
5	On the Morality of the Patriarchs in Jewish Polemic and Exegesis	131
6	Introducing Rabbi Breuer	147
7	The Study of Bible and the Primacy of the Fear of Heaven: Compatibility or Contradiction?	159
8	Response to Rabbi Breuer	181
9	Camino Real and Modern Talmud Study	189
10	On the Legitimacy, or Indeed, Necessity, of Scientific Disciplines for True "Learning" of the Talmud	197
11	Progressive Derash and Retrospective Peshat: Nonhalakhic Considerations in Talmud Torah	227
	Contributors	289
	Index	291