Jewish Concepts of Scripture

230 Chapter 13 Concepts of Scripture in Yehezkel Kaufmann Job Y. Jindo Th e empirical conception of the Bible fostered during th ...

Concepts of Scripture in Yehezkel Kaufmann 231 be examined, at least in scholarship, by means of the general principles and anal ...

232 Job Y. Jindo Formative Period: Kaufmann’s Th eoretical Framework Kaufmann was born in 1889 in the province of Podolia, Ukrai ...

Concepts of Scripture in Yehezkel Kaufmann 233 Th e inquisitive rigor or what his then-classmate and lifelong friend Zal- man Sh ...

234 Job Y. Jindo understands the process of biblical canonization to be a gradual one, start- ing with King Josiah’s religious r ...

Concepts of Scripture in Yehezkel Kaufmann 235 Cultural Creativity and Empirical Investigation Kaufmann thus conceives of the Bi ...

236 Job Y. Jindo Polytheism and Monotheism: Two Diff erent Worldviews Kaufmann points out that the Bible displays no cognizance ...

Concepts of Scripture in Yehezkel Kaufmann 237 in his view, from the implicit recognition that none of the gods is truly omnipot ...

238 Job Y. Jindo Kaufmann, that ancient Israelites themselves understood the religion of this deity, YHWH, to be universalistic ...

Concepts of Scripture in Yehezkel Kaufmann 239 reality was fundamentally diff erent from that of their neighboring soci- eties, ...

240 Job Y. Jindo transcends fate and nature — the notion that Kaufmann deems as unique to biblical monotheism — only a precondit ...

Concepts of Scripture in Yehezkel Kaufmann 241 behind the ultimate nexus of reality and, as such, cannot — indeed need not — see ...

242 Job Y. Jindo intellectual life — a discipline generally avoided by his contemporary Jews for its potential detriment to Jewi ...

Concepts of Scripture in Yehezkel Kaufmann 243 Th e Hebrew Bible Reborn: From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books: A History of ...

244 Job Y. Jindo diss., New York University 1968), 14. Th e letter is preserved in the Joseph Klausner archive in the National L ...

Concepts of Scripture in Yehezkel Kaufmann 245 however, Kaufmann generally understands that the same kind of scribal errors can ...

246 Job Y. Jindo For a polyphonic analysis of biblical religion and literature from a Kauf- mannian perspective, see Israel Kno ...

247 Chapter 14 Concepts of Scripture in Moshe Greenberg Marc Zvi Brettler Introduction Moshe Greenberg was born on July 10, 1928 ...

248 Marc Zvi Brettler Jewish intellectual who is discussed elsewhere in this volume.5 Greenberg discovered Kaufmann’s works in h ...

Concepts of Scripture in Moshe Greenberg 249 in whom he sees “a model of reverence toward the source of religion that does not e ...