Original Torah: Ancient Words in a Modern Light

I’m a Jew not in search of an adjective -R’ A. J. Heschel

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Mass Revelation and Faith

I get the sense I don’t have the same belief system as Dov Bear, but I really enjoy his argumentation. See these articles. I’ve commented on the second one.

An Explanation of Belief

Demolishing dumb arguments (The mass revelation argument for the Torah’s Historical Veracity)
I paraphrased my dvar and added

To clarify, the connection between what I wrote and what you wrote is that while the Bible offers many proofs of God’s presence and beneficence and sometimes notes that people believe, much of the Bible is the Narrarator or author/prophet railing against the majority of Israelites who are sinning by worshiping other gods as in “How long will you hop the fence? If YHWH is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him (1 Kgs. 18:21)

I think that the Torah as we know it became a popular text only in the Babylonian exile (which is why the Samaritans who never left have a slightly different, more edited version)

posted by OJ at 3:58 pm  

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