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Confessions of an Interloper: Bible Criticism from the Sidelines

“Bible criticism can ruin only a faith that has already been weakened.” – Emmanuel Levinas, The Spinoza Case

Prof. Rabbi Shaul Magid

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  1. The God I Believe in, J.O. Haberman, ed. (New York: Free Press, 1994), 128.

  2. Levinas, “The Spinoza Case,” Difficult Freedom, 107.

Prof. Rabbi Shaul Magid is the Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, and the former Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Professor of Jewish Studies at Indiana University/Bloomington. He is also the rabbi of the Fire Island… Read More
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