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Record Nr.

UNINA9910467005403321

Autore

Jacobs Louis

Titolo

Beyond reasonable doubt / / Louis Jacobs [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, , 2020

ISBN

1-80034-030-3

1-909821-37-3

Edizione

[First digital on-demand edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 pages)

Collana

Liverpool scholarship online

Disciplina

296.3

Soggetti

Judaism - History of doctrines - 20th century

Judaism - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

More than 40 years have passed since the author first put forward the argument that traditionally observant Jews have no reason to take issue with the results obtained by the historical critics in their investigation into the Bible & the other classical sources of Judaism. The author has argued that the traditional doctrine which claims that 'the Torah is from Heaven' can and should be maintained - provided that the word 'from' is understood in a non-fundamentalist way to denote that there is a human as well as a divine element in the Torah. As a result of these views, which were first published in the still-controversial text 'We Have Reason to Believe', the Anglo-Jewish Orthodox hierarchy banned the author from serving as an Orthodox rabbi. This text examines afresh all the issues involved.