Modern scholarship in the study of Torah : contributions and limitations ; [November 17-18, 1991, New York City

From the Preface: "The principal thrust of this book is to challenge the compartmentalization to which we seem all too easily resigned, to discover whether, and to what extent, the methods of modern scholarship can become part and parcel of the study of Torah, conceived as a religious-intellectual way of life. Not 'Modern Scholarship and the Study of Torah,' but 'Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah." Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents Preface 1. A Room with a View, but a Room of our Own 2. The State and Directions of Orthodox Bible Study 3. Study of Bible in Light of our Knowledge of the Ancient Near East 4. Rabbinic Midrash as Evidence for Textual Variants in the Hebrew Bible: History and Practice 5. On the Morality of the Patriarchs in Jewish Polemic and Exegesis 6. Introducing Rabbi Breuer 7. The Study of Bible and the Primacy of the Fear of Heaven: Compatibility or Contradiction? 8. Response to Rabbi Breuer 9. Camino Real and Modem Talmud Study 10. On the Legitimacy, or Indeed, Necessity, of Scientific Disciplines for True "Learning" of the Talmud 11. Progressive Derash and Retrospective Peshat: Nonhalakhic Considerations in Talmud Torah Contributors Index Challenges the compartmentalization to which we seem all too easily resigned, to discover whether, and to what extent, the methods of modern scholarship can become part and parcel of the study of "Torah", conceived as a religious-intellectual way of life.