Jewish Concepts of Scripture

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228 Baruch J. Schwartz


Black and Allan Menzies was published in Edinburgh by the publishers Adam and
Charles Black in 1885; this edition has been frequently republished.



  1. Joseph ben Eliezer Bonfi ls (Tov-Elem) remarks in his fourteenth-century
    remarks on the Genesis commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra (1089 – 1164), who al-
    luded to the verses in the Torah that could not have been written by Moses, “Since
    we have to trust in the words of tradition and the prophets, what should I care
    whether it was Moses or another prophet who wrote it, since the words of all of
    them are true and inspired?” See Jon Levenson, Th e Hebrew Bible, the Old Testa-
    ment, and Historical Criticism: Jews and Christians in Biblical Studies (Louisville,
    KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1993), 67.

  2. Most recently, James L. Kugel, How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture
    Th en and Now (New York: Free Press, 2007).

  3. David Weiss Halivni, Peshat and Derash (New York: Oxford University Press,
    1991).

  4. See Baruch J. Schwartz, “On Peshat and Derash, Bible Criticism and Th eol-
    ogy,” Prooft exts 14 (1994): 71 – 88.

  5. Another approach is that of Rabbi M. Breuer, concerning which see chapter
    15 by Shalom Carmy in this volume.

  6. For his work, see M.  M. Kalisch, A Historical and Critical Commentary on
    the Old Testament (London: Longmans, Exodus, 1855; Genesis, 1858; Leviticus,
    1867 – 72); Kalisch, Bible Studies (London: Longmans, 1877).

  7. Hoff mann’s work on the Bible is not available in English. See D. Hoff mann,
    Die wichstigsten Instanzen gegen die Graf-Wellhausensche Hypothese, 2 vols. (Ber-
    lin: H. Itzkowski, 1904 – 1916); Hoff mann, Das Buch Leviticus, 2 vols. (Berlin: M.
    Poppelauer, 1906); Hoff mann, Das Buch Deuteronomium, 2 vols. (Berlin: M. Pop-
    pelauer, 1913 – 1922); Hoff mann, Genesis, ed. and trans. A. Westril (Bnei Brak, Israel:
    Nezach, 1971) [in Hebrew].

  8. For examples of his work, see M. H. Segal, Introduction to the Bible, 8th ed.
    (Jerusalem: Kiryat Sefer, 1967) [in Hebrew]; Segal, Th e Pentateuch: Its Composition
    and Authorship and Other Biblical Studies (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1967).

  9. For Cassuto’s work in English, see Th e Documentary Hypothesis and the
    Composition of the Pentateuch (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1961), A Commentary on the
    Book of Genesis (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1961 – 64), A Commentary on the Book of Exo-
    dus (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1967), and Biblical and Oriental Studies (Jerusalem: Mag-
    nes, 1973).

  10. Kaufmann’s magnum opus in biblical studies is his Toledot Ha-Emunah
    Ha-yisre’elit [Th e History of the Religion of Israel from Antiquity until the End of
    Second Temple Times], 4 vols. (Tel Aviv: Dvir, 1937 – 56) [in Hebrew]. An abridged
    version of volumes 1 – 3 appeared in English as Th e Religion of Israel, trans. and
    abridged by Moshe Greenberg (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960). Th e
    fourth volume appeared in full in English as History of the Religion of Israel, vol.
    4, From the Babylonian Captivity to the End of Prophecy, trans. C.  W. Efroymson

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