Attitude to Biblical Criticism
Hello Rabbi, I wanted to ask you what your attitude is towards biblical criticism. I know of methods even among rabbis who see biblical criticism as something serious, such as the method of Rabbi Breuer, who said:
"About forty years ago, I examined the scholars' evidence and the counterclaims of Shlomi Amon Yisrael, and I was convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that the scholars were right. Biblical scholars have proven, as is well known, that the Torah was not written by one person, but rather is the product of several authors. And it was not written in one generation – neither in forty days nor in forty years – but is the result of a development of hundreds of years, and it reached final formation only after the Babylonian exile.
The faithful of Israel were horrified by these proofs, which seemed to them to contradict their belief in the Torah from heaven. Therefore, they claimed that all the proofs of the scholars were nothing. Indeed, one author could have written the entire Torah – from Genesis to the eyes of all Israel – in one generation and in one place immediately after the Exodus from Egypt. "
According to his understanding, the Torah was intentionally written by God in several different voices, which are supposed to express different "examinations" in His leadership of the world. The literary analysis presented by biblical critics reflects, according to the examination method, the combination of God's various modes of action in His world.
There are also more far-reaching methods, such as the method of biblical scholar Israel Knohl, who sees the Torah as a document that was not written entirely by Moses from the mouth of God, but by several prophets from the mouth of God and over a long period of time (at least that's how I understood it). It appears a bit in this link: http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/kitveyet/deot/kanohel.htm
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