Torah from heaven: the reconstruction of faith
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| adam_text | TORAH FROM
HEAVEN
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The Reconstruction of Faith
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NORMANSOIOMON
Oxford • Portland, Oregon
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
2OI2
Contents
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Note on Transliteration and Classical Sources xvi
Orientation 1
Where I Come From 3
The Seduction of True Belief 4
What Does It All Mean? 5
Philosophical Beginnings 7
Facing the Questions 9
Pulpit and Prejudice 11
Interfaith Dialogue 13
Academic Detachment? 14
PART I
REVELATION
Torah from Heaven: Growth of a Tradition 17
1 Holy Books 19
What Is Torah ? 25
The Sacred Canon 28
Why the Five Books Are Special 29
Philo on Moses and the Ancestral Books 31
Conclusion 32
2 Two Torahs? Scripture and the Rabbis 33
Divine Revelation: The Story 33
Mythic Accounts of Torah 36
The Written Torah and the Oral Torah 38
Rules of Interpretation 40
Interpretation Against the Plain Meaning 43
Conclusion 46
CONTENTS
3 Mystics and Kabbalists 47
Pythagoras, Numerology, and the Book of Creation 48
Mystical Significance of the Mitsvot 51
Prophets after the Bible 53
Nahmanides (Ramban) the Mystic 54
Conclusion 55
4 The Great Chain of Being: Philosophers
and Kabbalists 56
Platonists and Aristotelians 57
The Ascent of the Soul 58
The Descent and the Shells 60
Reasons for the Mitsvot 62
Conclusion 63
5 Maimonides: The Classical Position 64
Revelation as History 64
The Oral Torah 65
Torah and Dogma 66
Conclusion: Maimonides the Minimalist 67
6 Oral Torah: What Does It Contain? 69
Does the Torah Teach Science? 70
The Torah of Kabbalists and Rationalists 71
Conclusion 72
Summary of Part I 73
PART II
ATTACK
The Counter-Tradition: Hard Questions 75
7 The Counter-Tradition 77
The Alexandrians 77
Sadducees and Pharisees 80
CONTENTS
Pagan Philosophical Critiques 82
Gnosticism 88
Later Developments 90
Conclusion 92
8 The Original Torah 93
How Texts Were Written 93
Evidence of the Scrolls and the Ancient Versions 95
The Severus Scroll 99
Can the Original Text be Recovered? 100
The Masoretes 103
Rabbinic Responses to Textual Variation 105
Modern Editions of the Bible 110
Conclusion 111
Contradictions, Moral Problems, Factual Errors 113
The Reconciling Hermeneutic 114
Interpreting Aggadah 116
Historical and Archaeological Problems 119
Moral Issues 121
Scientific Inaccuracy 125
Fantasy, Arbitrariness, Superstition 129
Conclusion 131
10 The Rise of Historical Criticism 133
The Beginnings of Biblical Criticism 135
Deists and Sceptics 138
The Bible as Literature 139
From History to Myth 140
Source Theory 141
Archaeology 144
Higher Criticism = Higher Antisemitism? 145
Conclusion 146
Summary of Part H 147
CONTENTS
PART I I I
DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH
Repairing the Breach: In Defence of Tradition 149
11 Defenders of the Faith 151
What Must be Defended 151
Ancient Wisdom Restored: The Renaissance 152
Jewish Bible Commentary Rekindled 154
Conclusion 156
12 The Transformation of Judaism: Interpretation,
Interpretation, Interpretation 158
Elijah, the Vilna Gaon (1720-1799) 161
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) 167
Torah—Mystical Code, or Source of Values? 170
13 Mendelssohn s Influence 172
Isaac Samuel Reggio (1784-1855) 172
Samuele Davide Luzzatto (1800-1865) 174
Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891) 178
Umberto Cassuto (1883-1951) 179
14 Independents 180
Jacob Tsevi Mecklenburg (1785-1865) 180
Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888) 184
Malbim (Meir Leibush ben Yehiel Michel Weiser, 1809-1879) 190
15 In the Steps of the Gaon: Written and
Oral Torah Are One 195
Naftali Tsevi Yehudah Berlin (1816-1893) 195
Me ir Simhah Hakohen of Dvinsk (1843-1926) 201
Barukh Halevi Epstein (1860-1942) 202
CO NTENTS
16 Hoffman and German Orthodoxy 204
David Hoffman (1843-1921) 204
Hayim Hirschensohn (1857—1935) 205
Benno Jacob (1862-1945) and A S Yahuda (1877-1951) 206
Isaac Breuer (1883-1946) 207
Jehiel Jacob Weinberg (1884-1966) 208
Joseph Herman Hertz (1872-1946) 209
Summary of Part III 211
PART IV
NEW FOUNDATIONS
Torah from Heaven: The Reconstruction of Belief 213
17 Non-Orthodox Reconstructions 215
Moses Mendelssohn: Revealed Legislation 217
Salomon Ludwig Steinheim (1789-1866): Empiricist of Revelation 218
Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860): Radical Reform 221
Progressive Revelation: Krochmal, Formstecher, Hirsch, Cohen 221
Leo Baeck (1873-1956): Essence of Judaism 224
Martin Buber (1878-1965): All Life Is Meeting 225
Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929): Creation, Revelation, Redemption 226
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972): Passion of the Prophets 228
Emmanuel Levinas (1905/6-1995): The Face of the Other 233
18 Joseph Dov Soloveitchik and the a priori Torah 237
The Hermeneutics of Torah 240
Historical Criticism 242
The Oral Torah Problem 243
Conclusion 247
19 Feminist Critiques 248
The Sinai Covenant 251
Language and Gender 253
CONTENTS
Images of God 254
Equality before the Law 256
The Need for Change 258
20 Four Defences of Traditional Belief 259
David Weiss Halivni: The Maculate Torah 260
Louis Jacobs: Liberal Supernaturalism 264
Menachem Kellner: Rejection of the Dogmatic Approach 266
Tamar Ross: Cumulative Revelation 268
Strengths of the Four Approaches 271
21 Divided by a Common Scripture 272
The Reform Torah 275
The Orthodox Torah 277
The Conservative Torah 281
Go Compare Denominations 286
Summary of Part TV 288
PART V
TORAH FROM HEAVEN 291
22 Options 293
Justifications 293
The Community: Costs and Benefits of Belief 294
The Individual: Costs and Benefits of Belief 296
23 What Is Truth? 299
What Is Truth? 302
Excursus: Consistency and Double Truth 306
In What Sense Is Torah from Heaven True? 309
On Narrative Theology 313
Conclusion Torah from Heaven : A Myth of Origin 313
24 Myth of Origin: Opportunities and Dangers 316
What Torah from Heaven May Signify 317
History and Myth Do Not Conflict 318
CONTENTS
Torah from Heaven : Uses and Abuses 318
Benefits of Understanding Torah from Heaven as
Mythos rather than Logos 320
Dangers from Understanding Torah from Heaven as
Logos rather than Mythos 321
Things That Worry People 322
25 Demography versus Reason: The Future of
Jewish Religion 325
Does Reason Matter? 328
Authentic Judaism 331
Survival of the Fittest 333
Conclusion 337
26 Confronting Change 339
A Meditation at the Mountains of Fire (January 2004) 339
Coming to Terms with Modernity 341
Intellectual Violence 343
Who Decides? 345
What I Have Dealt With 345
What I Have Not Dealt With 346
Bibliography 349
Index of Scriptural References 373
Index of Rabbinic References 377
General Index 381
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