A Journey Through Torah: A Critique of the Documentary Hypothesis (Hardcover)

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by Ben Zion Katz 
This fascinating book presents an original synthesis of the two approaches of understanding Biblical texts in critical Biblical scholarship and traditional Jewish exegesis. While it is unusually claimed that modern, critical Biblical scholarship and traditional Judaism are irreconcilable, this book demonstrates that modern Biblical scholarship is not as scientific as its proponents make it out to be, while traditional Jewish exegesis is more critical than is commonly appreciated.
Hardcover, 144 pages 
publication: 2012 

About the Author: 
Ben Zion Katz is a Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and is an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL. He is the author of over 50 original medical publications as well as many book chapters and editorials on medical matters. He has taught for the Florence Melton Adult Jewish Education Program of Hebrew University, the Dawn Schuman Institute for Jewish Learning and Limmud Chicago, and published articles of Jewish interest in Tradition, Jewish Bible Quarterly and Bekhol Derakhekha Daehu (Journal of Torah and Scholarship). He lives in the Chicago area with his wife and three daughters. 
Praise for A Journey Through Torah: 
"Ben Katz has written a refreshing new approach to biblical scholarship, one that shows that the differences between classical Jewish Bible commentary and modern critical approaches to the Bible are not as unbridgeable as many still seem to think. In his well-argued view, the Documentary Hypothesis is not as foolproof as once thought, and the classical Jewish commentators are not the fundamentalists many continue to believe them to be. In other words, their differing approaches can often complement one another, which is what Dr. Katz does so deftly." 
-David Novak, J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies University of Toronto 
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