Monthly Archives: January 2016

One the most discussed and complicated theological topics in contemporary Orthodoxy is the question of Torah MiSinai. Below is a list of sources that I have found online that cover this topic in depth, more to be added soon.  If there is anything I have left out, please provide a link in the comments section.

The Torah.Com
–Avraham Avinu is My Father
–The Dogma of Torah Mi-Sinai My Personal Struggle with Unreasonable Belief
–Torah Min HaShamayim: Conflicts Between Religious Belief and Scientific Thinking
–The Significance of Ibn Ezra’s Position that Verses were Added to the Torah
–Seven Torah Passages of Non-Mosaic Origin According to Ibn Ezra and R. Joseph Bonfils
–Authorship of the Torah: The Position of the Ibn Ezra and Rav Yehuda Hachasid
–Must We Have Heretics?
–Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Biblical Criticism:
–Torah MiSinai and Biblical Criticism: Rising to the Full Challenge: Rabbi Dr. Jeremy Rosen

Morethodoxy
–The Torah, TheTorah.com, and the Recent Tumult in Context – by Rabbi Zev Farber
–Torah Min Hashamayim: Some Brief Reflections on Classical and Contemporary Models – Guest Post – Rabbi Nati Helfgot
–Guest Post by Rav Yitzchak Blau: The Documentary Hypothesis and Orthodox Judaism
–Living by the Word of God: By Rabbi Dr Ben Elton

Think Judaism Series: Modern Biblical Scholarship – A Danger to Traditional Belief
–Modern Biblical Scholarship – A Danger to Traditional Belief Part 1/
–Modern Biblical Scholarship – A Danger to Traditional Belief Part 2
–Modern Biblical Scholarship – A Danger to Traditional Belief Part 3
–Modern Biblical Scholarship – A Danger to Traditional Belief Part 4
–Modern Biblical Scholarship – A Danger to Traditional Belief Part 5

Torah Musings/Rabbi Gil Student
–Open Orthodoxy?
–Q&A with R. Prof. Joshua Berman
–Torah From Heaven
–Moshe Is True And His Torah Is True
–On the Authorship of the Torah
–On the Text of the Torah
–On Bible Criticism and Its Counterarguments

YUTOPIA
–Current Jewish Questions, Biblical Criticism and Orthodox Judaism

James Kugel:
–Conversation with James Kugel About Revelation Part 1
–Conversation with James Kugel About Revelation Part 2
–Conversation with James Kugel About Revelation Part 3
–Beacon Magazine Interview with James Kugel
–Moment Mag – Professor of Disbelief

Interviews
–Ten Questions with the Orthodox Blogger DovBear on Academic Biblical Scholarship
–Interview with David M. Carr- Current state of Bible Scholarship
–Interview with Benjamin Sommer on Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish –Scripture and Tradition
–Interview with Prof. Jacob Wright of Emory University

Tablet Magazine
–Reconciling Modern Biblical Scholarship with Traditional Orthodox Belief

Cross Currents
–From Openness to Heresy
–Torah Min-Hashamayim: A Reply to Rabbi Nati Helfgot

Seforim Blog
–Torah mi-Sinai and More by Marc B. Shapiro

Shulem Deen:
-This is how I lost my faith

Mosaic Magazine:
–Can Modern Bible Scholarship Be Reconciled with Faith?
–Torah from Heaven
–Ezra’s Torah
–Orthodoxy’s Golden Calf
–Ark of the Covenant
–Kingdom of Priests
–Constructive Criticism
–The Law of Moses?
–A Reply to My Respondents, and My Friends
–The People Saw the Thunder
–The Decalogue and the Identity of God
–Grammar from Heaven
–Rethinking Revelation
–What Does the God of Israel Demand?
–The Ten Commandments

Hakira Blog:
Hershey Zelcer: Review Essay by Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah: Contributions and Limitations

Books:
–James Kugel: How to Read the Bible then and Now
–James Kugel: The Kingly Sanctuary
–Norman Solomon: Torah from Heaven the Reconstruction of Faith
–Louis Jacobs: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
–Tamar Ross: Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism
–Mark Zvi Brettler: The Bible and the Believer: How to read the Bible Critically and Religiously
–Benjamin D. Sommer: Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition
–Shulem Deen: All who go do not return
–Orthodox Forum: Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah
– The Documentary Hypothesis: Umberto Cassutto
– Solomon Schimmel: The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs: Fundamentalism and the Fear of Truth

Lectures:
–Biblical Criticism: First Thoughts by Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner
-Usefulness and Limitations of Biblical Criticism by Rabbi Yonah Gross