Jewish Concepts of Scripture

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Concepts of Scripture in Moshe Greenberg 265


  1. Greenberg, “Faith-ful Critical Interpretation,” 211; Greenberg, introduction
    to Studies in the Bible and Jewish Th ought, xv.

  2. Greenberg, “Asylum,” in Studies in the Bible and Jewish Th ought, 43; Green-
    berg, “To Whom and for What Should a Bible Commentator Be Responsible?,” in
    Studies in the Bible and Jewish Th ought, 236, 238; Greenberg, Anchor Bible: Eze-
    kiel, 1:ix.

  3. Greenberg, “Th e Biblical Grounding of Human Value,” in Th e Samuel
    Friedland Lectures, 1960 – 1966 (New York: Jewish Th eological Seminary, 1967),
    50; Greenberg, “Prologue: Can Modern Critical Bible Scholarship Have a Jewish
    Character?,” in Studies in the Bible and Jewish Th ought, 7; Greenberg, “Supplement:
    Moshe Greenberg,” in Visions of Jewish Education, ed. Seymour Fox, Israel Schef-
    fl er, and Daniel Marom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 146 – 47.

  4. See later in this chapter.

  5. Greenberg, “On the Refi nement of the Conception of Prayer in Hebrew
    Scriptures,” in Studies in the Bible and Jewish Th ought, 89.

  6. Greenberg, “Some Postulates of Biblical Criminal Law,” in Studies in the
    Bible and Jewish Th ought, 30, 32.

  7. Greenberg, Anchor Bible: Ezekiel, 1:347.

  8. Greenberg, Ha-Segula veha-Koach, 65; Greenberg, “An Approach to the
    Teaching of Bible in School,” in On the Bible and Judaism, 297 (in Hebrew).

  9. From his writing and from personal conversations, it is clear that Green-
    berg’s conception of torah lishmah includes not only study, but application. In
    other words, it refl ects the classical rabbinic notion, rather than that of Hayyim
    of Volozhin. (On this distinction, see Norman Lamm, Torah Lishmah: Torah for
    Torah’s Sake in the Works of Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin and His Contemporaries
    [Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1989]).

  10. Greenberg, “Commentator,” 235, 241 – 42; Greenberg, “Exegesis,” in Studies
    in the Bible and Jewish Th ought, 367; Greenberg, Jewish Bible Exegesis: An Introduc-
    tion, Biblical Encyclopaedia Library (Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 1983; in Hebrew),
    138; Greenberg, “Some Th oughts Concerning the Responsibilities of the Bible
    Teacher and His Preparation,” in On the Bible and Judaism, 281 – 82 (in Hebrew);
    Greenberg, “We Are as Th ose Who Dream: An Agenda for an Ideal Jewish Educa-
    tion,” in Visions of Jewish Education, 124; Greenberg, “Prologue,” 6.

  11. Greenberg, “Ezekiel 20 and the Spiritual Exile,” in Oz le-David (Jerusalem:
    Kiryat Sepher, 1964), 433 (in Hebrew).

  12. Greenberg, “Th e Task of Masorti Judaism,” in Deepening the Commitment:
    Zionism and the Conservative Movement, ed. J.  S. Ruskay and D. Szonyi, 137 – 45
    (New York: Th e Jewish Th eological Seminary, 1990), 139.

  13. Greenberg, “Th e Attitude toward State Power in the Torah and the Proph-
    ets,” in Hasegulah, 49 (in Hebrew).

  14. Th ese include M. Weiss, Sh. Talmon, M. Sternberg, S. Bar-Efrat, R. Alter, A.

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