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Joseph Blenkinsopp, Treasures Old & New: Essays in the Theology of the Pentateuch., reviewed by John Van Seters Mark Boda, Haggai & Zechariah Research: A Bibliographic Survey, reviewed by John Kessler Richard A. Burridge and Graham Gould, Jesus Now and Then, reviewed by Agnes Choi James D.G. Dunn, Jesus Remembered, reviewed by Robert L. Webb Isaac Kalimi, The Reshaping of Ancient Israelite History in Chronicles, reviewed by Christine Mitchell Jacob Milgrom, Leviticus—A Continental Commentary, reviewed by Bernon P. Lee Jacob Neusner, Transformations in Ancient Judaism: Textual Evidence for Creative Responses to Crisis., reviewed by Norman Tobias S.A. Nigosian, From Ancient Writings to Sacred Texts: The Old Testament andApocrypha., reviewed by Andrea K. Di Giovanni John Sandys-Wunsch, What Have They Done to the Bible? A History of Modern Biblical Interpretation, reviewed by Laura D. Alary Daniel J. Simundson, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah. Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries, reviewed by Briana Boyeon Lee Bonnie B. Thurston & Judith M. Ryan, Philippians & Philemon. Sacra Pagina, reviewed by Duncan Reid James C. VanderKam, From Joshua to Caiaphas, reviewed by Karl J. McDaniel William Yarchin, History of Biblical Interpretation: A Reader, reviewed by Amanda W. Benckhuysen William H. Brackney, A Genetic History of Baptist Thought, reviewed by Scott N. Kindred-Barnes Peter Matheson, The Imaginative World of the Reformation, reviewed by Alan L. Hayes Kim Ian Parker, The Biblical Politics of John Locke, reviewed by Jonathan Chaplin Junietta Baker McCall, Bereavement Counseling: Pastoral Care for Complicated Grieving, reviewed by Kathleen O'Neill Arthur Van Seters, Preaching and Ethics, reviewed by Stephen J.H. Tu Marguerite Abdul-Masih, Edward Schillebeeckx and Hans Frei: A Conversation on Method and Christology, reviewed by Margaret Lavin Hans Boersma, Violence, Hospitality and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition, reviewed by Jonathan Slater Frederick E. Crowe, Christ and History: The Christology o/Bernard Lonerganfrom 1935 to 1982, reviewed by Charles Hefling Oliver Davies, A Theology of Compassion: Metaphysics of Difference and the Renewal of Tradition, reviewed by Michael Stoeber Robert D. Denham, Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World., reviewed by David J. Leigh Stanley Hauerwas, Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence, reviewed by John F. Duggan George Hunsinger, ed., For the Sake of the World: Karl Barth and the Future of Ecclesial Theology., reviewed by Philip G. Ziegler John C. McDowell and Mike Higton, eds., Conversing with Barth, reviewed by Alison Hari-Singh M. John Farrelly, The Trinity: Rediscovering the Central Christian Mystery, reviewed by Michael J. Stogre Daniel L. Migliore, Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology, 2nd ed., reviewed by Laurence K. Chin George P. Schner, Essays Catholic and Critical, reviewed by David Alstad Tiessen James K.A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping a Post-Secular Theology, reviewed by Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer James K.A. Smith and Henry Isaac Venema, eds., The Hermeneutics of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, and Postmodern Faith. Studies in Honor of James H. Olthuis, reviewed by Geoffrey Williams George R. Sumner, The First and the Last: The Claim of Jesus Christ and the Claims of Other Religious Traditions, reviewed by Donald Wiebe Peter van Inwagen, ed., Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil, reviewed by Nathan R.B. Loewen Harold Wells, The Christie Center: Lifo-Giving and Liberating, reviewed by Don Schweitzer Michael Wyschogrod, Abraham's Promise: Judaism and Jewish-Christian Relations, reviewed by Margaret Robinson

Can Jesus Scholarship Escape from Racism?

Book reviewed in this article:Shawn Kelly, Racializing Jesus: Race, Ideology and the Formation of Modern Biblical Scholarship

Jewish Responses to Modern Biblical Criticism: Some Reflections and a Course Proposal

100 SHOFAR Spring 1994 Vol. 12, No.3 FOCUS ON TEACHING We welcome responses, dialogue, and discussions of experience in this regular column. Jewish Responses to Modern Biblical Criticism: Some Reflections and a Course Proposal Alan Levenson Assistant Professor Cleveland College ofJewish Studies Teaching a survey of the Hebrew Scriptures to undergraduates for the first time at a distinguished Southern college, I was confronted with an interesting dichotomy. Students who had received a traditional religious background felt threatened by a critical approach to the Bible, often reacting in a defensive, fundamentalist vein. Highly secular students, on the other hand, having no commitment to religious community but only to some vague notion of historical facticity, had trouble imagining the function of a sacred text in a living religious community, or the Bible as something more than a repository for "the facts."l The following reflections, and the syllabus appended at their conclusion, emerged out of a quest for a useful heuristic to tackle this problem. Surveying some of the Jewish responses to modern biblical criticism offered a way to demonstrate that an intellectually rigorous confrontation with Scripture does not necessitate a literalist starting point, and that our respective upbringings influence the ways in which we approach biblical texts. ' The two critical terms in my course title are "modern" and "Jewish," and both require explication. I begin by looking at some classic Christian and Judaic interpretations of the expulsion from Eden. Both Christian and Jewish students were surprised that Paul's and Milton's reading ofThe Fall lNorthrop Frye deals with the second ofthese two issues from the perspective ofcultural literacy. Frye, The Great Code (San Diego-New York-London, 1983), pp. xi-xxiii. I would like to thank my colleague Dr. Roger C. Klein for his comments on an early draft of this essay. Focus on Teaching 101 as the critical event in human history did not predominate in rabbinic exegesis. Few realized that Jewish exegetes gave greater prominence to the murder ofAbel by Cain, and thatJewish polemicists dismissed the doctrine of Original Sin as a misreading.2 In addition to announcing my leitmotif that the Christian and Jewish interpretive traditions differed considerably, I introduce and discuss both the existence of pre-modern biblical exegesis and criticism and the problematic of arriving at the plain meaning (p'shat) of the Bible. Having delineated some of the characteristics of pre-modern Bible reading, I turn to Spinoza's Theological-Political Tractate (1670). Without intending to disparage the other pioneers in modern biblical criticism,3 this pedagogic choice allowed me to highlight the differences between. the adumbrations of modern criticism in the midrashim and in medieval commentaries and Spinoza's fundamentally modern willingness . to explicitly challenge the antiquity, authorship, and authority of Scripture .4 The reception accorded Spinoza's Tractate also demonstrates the resistance to the Higher Criticism, a resistance which continued into the nineteenth century and, in some quarters, until today. Within the Jewish community, "traditional" Jewish methods of exegesis currently flourish not only in the yeshiva world, but also in the popular Artscroll Series chumash, in which the p'shat almost always follows Rashi's d'rash. 5 In contradistinction to the scholars discussed below, the Artscroll approach minimizes the possibility of pluriform readings of a given text (after all, even Rashi's grandson frequently disagreed on what the text really said), and negates intergenerational dialogue as a means of discovering meaning. Modern Orthodoxy, to the extent that it ignores the findings of source criticism, form criticism, archaeology, and comparative linguistics, prefers a "traditional" interpre2See Nachmanides' comments in Charles Chavel, ed., The Disputation at Barcelona (New York, 1983), pp. 2-42. 3Any such list of pioneers would have to include Thomas Hobbes, Bishop LOWlh, Richard Simon, Jean Astruc, and Johann Gabler. 'Spinoza was aware of these medieval anticipations and refers quite often to Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch. See also Nahum Sarna, "The Modern Study of the Bible in the Framework of Jewish Studies" and the relevant citations, in Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress ofJewish Studies, Vol. 1 Oerusalem, 1983), pp. 19-27. 5It may be argued that a series that attempts to market rabbinic commentary to a...

Jewish Medieval Commentary on the Book of Genesis and Modern Biblical Philology. Part I: Gen 1-18

Jewish Medieval Commentary on the Book of Genesis and Modern Biblical Philology. Part I: Gen 1-18

The Literal, the Allegorical, and Modern Biblical Scholarship

The Literal, the Allegorical, and Modern Biblical Scholarship

The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies. Revised edition by Frank Moore Cross, Jr. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1980. xxvii. 260pp. Paper, $5.95.)

The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies. Revised edition by Frank Moore Cross, Jr. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1980. xxvii. 260pp. Paper, $5.95.)

The Rise and Reception of Modern Biblical Criticism

The Rise and Reception of Modern Biblical Criticism

What is a Modern Biblical Scholarship?

What is a Modern Biblical Scholarship?

Modern Biblical Scholarship

Modern Biblical Scholarship

Jesus, God and Man: Modern Biblical Reflections

Book Review| September 01 1969 Jesus, God and Man: Modern Biblical Reflections Jesus, God and Man: Modern Biblical Reflections, Raymond E. Brown. Richard N. Longenecker Richard N. Longenecker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Biblical Literature (1969) 88 (3): 366–367. https://doi.org/10.2307/3263742 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Richard N. Longenecker; Jesus, God and Man: Modern Biblical Reflections. Journal of Biblical Literature 1 September 1969; 88 (3): 366–367. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3263742 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveSBL PressJournal of Biblical Literature Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 1969 Society of Biblical Literature1969 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Jesus and the Gospel Tradition, by C. K. Barrett. S.P.C.K., 1967. 25s.

Book reviewed in this article:JESUS AND THE GOSPEL TRADITION, by C. K. Barrett.JESUS, GOD AND MAN. Modern Biblical Reflections, by Raymond E. Brown, S.S.CHRIST FOR US TODAY. Papers read at the Conference of Modern Churchmen, Somerville College, Oxford, July 1967, with an appended essay by Edward Carpenter,CHRISTOLOGIE. Essai dogmatique, L'Homme Jésus, by C. Duquoc.GOD OUR SAVIOUR. A Study of the Atonement, by Peter De Rosa.THE ATONEMENT, by F. R. Barry.FAITH AND THEOLOGY, by M.‐D. Chenu.FOUR LETTERS OF PELAGIUS, by Robert F. Evans.PELAGIUS: INQUIRIES AND REAPPRAISALS, by Robert F. Evans.MARTIN HEIDEGGER, by John Macquarrie.LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, by W. D. Hudson.CHURCHES AT THE GRASS‐ROOTS, by Efraim Anderson.THE PROBLEM OF LONELINESS, by J. B. Lotz, S.J.LE PÈRE LEBRET: L'ECONOMIE AU SERVICE DES HOMMES. Selected Texts by Father Lebret, edited by François Malley, O.P.MIDDLE CLASS RADICALISM. The Social Bases of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, by Frank Parkin.CANTERBURY UNDER THE ANGEVIN KINGS, by William Urry.THE KNIGHTS OF ST JOHN IN JERUSALEM AND CYPRUS, c. 1050–1310, by Jonathan Riley‐Smith.THE NAZI PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCHES, by J. S. Conway.THE FLYING SAUCER VISION, by John Michell.VIOLENCE, by John Singleton, 11–16 Series: Year 5, Teacher's Book.SCRIPTURE DISCUSSION OUTLINES, Sheed and Ward, 1968: Deuteronomy, by Joseph Blenkinsopp,

Jesus. God and Man. Modern Biblical Reflections, by Raymond E. BrownS.S. Geofrey Chapman, London, 1968. 109 pp. 25s. - Christ for Us Today. Papers read at the Conference of Modern Churchmen, Somerville College, Oxford, July 1967, with an appended essay by Edward Carpenter, President of the Modern Church men's Union, edited by Norman Pittenger. S.C.M. Press, London, 1968. - Christologie.

Jesus. God and Man. Modern Biblical Reflections, by Raymond E. BrownS.S. Geofrey Chapman, London, 1968. 109 pp. 25s. - Christ for Us Today. Papers read at the Conference of Modern Churchmen, Somerville College, Oxford, July 1967, with an appended essay by Edward Carpenter, President of the Modern Church men's Union, edited by Norman Pittenger. S.C.M. Press, London, 1968. - Christologie.

Modern Biblical Research in Israel

Modern Biblical Research in Israel

The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies. Frank Moore Cross, Jr.

<i>The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies</i>. Frank Moore Cross, Jr.

The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies

The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies

Book Review: I. Biblical Studies: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies

Book Review: I. Biblical Studies: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies

The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies. Frank Moore Cross.

Previous articleNext article No AccessTwo New BooksThe Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies. Frank Moore Cross.G. Ernest WrightG. Ernest Wright Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 21, Number 2May 1958 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/3209156 Journal History This article was published in The Biblical Archaeologist (1938-1997), which is continued by Near Eastern Archaeology (1998-present). Copyright 1958 American Schools of Oriental ResearchPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Factors in the Development of Modern Biblical Study

The impression which is likely to be derived from the reading of a history of biblical interpretation is that modern criticism is a goal which has been attained by an evolution in which the curve of progress is fairly steady and constant. There seems to be a tacit assumption that such adjectives as “modern,” “critical,” and “scientific” as applied to biblical studies are synonymous and equally deserved. The occasional appearance of a critical judgment in the work of ancient worthies is regarded as an “anticipation” of modern views. In most histories of interpretation the beginnings of modern criticism are found in the Renaissance and the Reformation, so that Luther and Calvin are regarded as biblical scholars; the importance of New Testament studies in the work of Erasmus is exaggerated, and processes of scientific criticism are pictured as in effect before the impact of discovery brought a new world-view into being.

The Paradox of Modern Biblical Criticism

Patriotism cannot be separated from religion without danger to both. The religion of Germany is a religion of authority. The religion of democracy must be the religion of the spirit and the truth. The war is freeing us from many an outgrown attitude of mind. Unless signs fail, not the least of its emancipations will be from the identification of merely destructive criticism with biblical science, for the democracy of the future will refuse to think its religion in the concepts of the autocracy it has destroyed. Mr. Wallis makes this plain. Only the truly scientific use of the Bible can make its revelation of God's will intelligent and dynamic in the new age now in the making.

THE NON-IDENTITY OF MODERN LEPROSY AND BIBLICAL LEPROSY

THE NON-IDENTITY OF MODERN LEPROSY AND BIBLICAL LEPROSY H. W. Hill, DirectorM. B.M. D.D. P. H. CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.4.7.605 Published Online: August 30, 2011