Ten Questions with a (Recreational) Bible Scholar
Ben Zion Katz, M.D., author of A Journey Through Torah: A Critique of the Documentary Hypothesis, describes his interest in academic biblical scholarship and why, even so, he is skeptical of many of the guild’s conclusions.
Dr Ben Katz is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and an Attending Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases of the Anne and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. He is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed medical publications as well as studies of Jewish interest related to Bible, liturgy and the calendar published in journals such as Tradition, Bechal Deracheha Dehu and Jewish Bible Quarterly. He has recently published A Journey Through Torah: A Critique of the Documentary Hypothesis, Urim, 2012.
Published: October 20, 2013
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