A Journey Through Torah ─ A Critique of the Documentary Hypothesis

The Torah is the basis of all Judaism. In traditional Jewish thought, the Torah is considered to have been dictated by God to Moses, and the text of the Torah that we possess is considered to be a record of that revelation. It has been claimed that modern, critical biblical scholarship and traditional Judaism are irreconcilable. This book demonstrates that modern biblical scholarship is not as scientific as its proponents make it out to be, while traditional Jewish exegesis is more critical than is commonly appreciated. A synthesis of the two approaches is presented in the concluding chapter.

Ben Zion Katz is a Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine and is an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL. He is the author of over 50 original medical publications as well as many book chapters and editorials on medical matters. He has taught for the Florence Melton Adult Jewish Education Program of Hebrew University, the Dawn Schuman Institute for Jewish Learning and Limmud Chicago, and published articles of Jewish interest in Tradition, Jewish Bible Quarterly and Bekhol Derakhekha Daehu (Journal of Torah and Scholarship). He lives in the Chicago area with his wife and three daughters.