Annotated anthology--"wisdom and knowledge will be given to you" / Yoshi Fargeon -- A personal perspective on biblical history, the authorship of the Torah, and belief in its divine origin / Shawn Zelig Aster -- The sages as Bible critics / Yehuda Brandes -- The Tanakh as history / Marc Zvi Brettler -- Kabbalah as a shield against the "scourge" of biblical criticism : a comparative analysis of the Torah commentaries of Elia Benamozegh and Mordecai Breuer / Adiel Cohen -- Orthodoxy and the challenge of biblical criticism : some reflections on the importance of asking the right question / Tamar Ross -- Ask the Rabbi : "biblical criticism is destroying my religious faith!" / Yuval Cherlow -- "I shall fear God alone and not show favor in Torah" : a conceptual foundation for wrestling with biblical scholarship / David Bigman -- Revelation and religious authority in the Sinai traditions / Benjamin Sommer -- The Torah speaks to people / Chezi Cohen -- The revelation narratives : analyses and theological reflections on Exodus, Deuteronomy and classical Midrash / Avraham Shammah -- The binding of Isaac and historical contextuality / Chayuta Deutsch -- Manasseh, king of Judah, in early Rabbinic literature : an erudite, unfettered, and creative biblical critic / Hananel Mack -- Justification, denial, and "terraforming" : three theological-exegetical models / Amit Kula -- The names of God and the dating of the biblical corpus / Yoel Elitzur -- Discrepancies between laws in the Torah / Joshua Berman -- Between the prophet and his prophecy : Ezekiel's visionary temple in its historical context / Tova Ganzel -- The Torah of Moses and the laws of the nations : a study in the teachings of Rabbi Tzadok ha-Kohen of Lublin / Avia Hacohen -- Illuminating inscriptions / Yaakov Medan -- Archaeology and the Bible / Haggai Misgav -- The book of Daniel and the twenty-first-century religious Bible student / Rivka Raviv.
"The essays in this volume address the conundrum of how Jewish believers in the divine character of the Sinaitic revelation confront the essential questions raised by academic biblical studies. The first part is an anthology of rabbinic sources, from the medieval period to the present, treating questions that reflect a critical awareness of the Bible. The second part is a series of twenty-one essays by contemporary rabbis and scholars on how they combine their religious beliefs with their critical approach to the Bible."--