A Journey through Torah: A Critique of the Documentary Hypothesis - Hardcover

Demonstrating that the supposed irreconcilability of modern, critical biblical scholarship and traditional Judaism has been overstated, this proposal argues that modern biblical scholarship is not as scientific as its proponents make it out to be, while traditional Jewish exegesis is more critical than is commonly appreciated. It is a synthesis of the two, author Ben Zion Katz sustains, that allows for the most nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the Torah.

Ben Zion Katz is a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending physician at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. He has taught for the Florence Melton Adult Jewish Education Program of Hebrew University, the Dawn Schuman Institute for Jewish Learning, and Limmud Chicago. He has also published articles of Jewish interest in Jewish Bible Quarterly and the journal Tradition. He lives in the Chicago area.