The Torah and Its God
Subtitle: A Humanist Inquiry
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 581
ISBN-13: 9781573928205
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Books of the Old Testament; Humanist & secular alternatives to religion; Judaism; Sacred texts; Religion - Judaism; Judaism - Sacred Writings; Commentaries; Religion; Pentateuch; O.T; Biblical Studies - Old Testament; Bible.; Judaism - General; Bible; Humanistic Judaism; O.T.
First sentence: To Orthodox Jews in particular, the Torah remains sacred as God's Sinaitic revelation to Israel through His prophet and faithful transcriber, Moses.
Description: ""What remains of the Torah when we openly acknowledge that its God exists in the human mind alone, having been created by human authors as the means, in their time, of inspiring a people toward its highest ends?" So opens the author's humanist inquiry into the Torah and its God. What follows, based on modern scholarship regarding the Torah's human authorship, is a detailed, respectful, and innovative reading of these first five books of the Hebrew Bible."--BOOK JACKET.