Modern Biblical scholarship and traditional Jewish belief - James Kugel at Limmud Conference 2013

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Did Moses really write the Torah? Is there any archaeological evidence that the Exodus took place? Did the Israelites really conquer Canaan and settle there? Most biblical scholars in universities tend to answer all these questions with a 'No.' What then is a religious Jew to make of all this? A different way of approaching the question.

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@daver1787 10 лет назад

I think the time has come to reconcile the knowledge obtained from academic biblical scholarship, biblical archaeology, history and science with Rabbinic Judaism and transform the religion from mythology to reality.

@DeliaWolf 9 лет назад

David Ross I agree. And to the rest of the world's religions, I have to say that we all need to take a good hard look to all of them. What good can any religion, intolerant and unforgiving of any other religion do any good for the world at large?

@moshewise7302 6 лет назад

The trouble with David Ross's idea is the fact that Jews do not have a central theological authority to introduce official modifications to their ancient covenant. If the Jews had a "Pope" they might ask her to make these changes, but Jews have no Pope.

@moshewise7302 6 лет назад

DeliaWolf believes that religious people are useless and harmful and should therefore be "reeducated" with secularism/atheism/agnosticism/liberalism etc. I encourage DeliaWolf to study the historical examples of societies where the anti-religious tried to replace religion with a non-religious ideology and take a good hard look at her hostility towards her religious neighbors.

@robertocfaguiar Год назад

Yes, religion is as human response to the ineffable. The beauty, awe and perfection of nature and the universe in contrast to the joy, pain and fragility of being human in all it's complexity. I hope I got this right.😂😂😂

@moshewise7302 6 лет назад

James Kugel argues that many of the claims of Jewish tradition have been refuted by Bible critics. For Kugel to be correct, Bible critics need to possess a reliable tool for measuring truth and falsehood. Bible critics have spent centuries searching in vain for such an epistemic foundation, so Kugel's "refutation" of tradition is actually built on nothing. If Kugel really wishes to find refutations of tradition, I suggest he review the challenges offered by Job and Qohelet.