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Others believe that the results\r\narrived at are untrue, and regard them as the outcome\r\nof wicked attacks made upon the veracity of the\r\nWord of God by men whose scholarship is a cloak for\r\ntheir sinister designs or a mask of their incapacity\r\nto comprehend its spiritual message. There is perhaps\r\na middle course open to some who have found\r\na message of God to their souls in the Old Testament,\r\nand who, on hearing that the authorship of this book\r\nhas been questioned or the historicity of that passage\r\nassailed, are unmoved, because they believe that itviii\r\ndoes not matter who wrote the Pentateuch or the\r\nPsalms so long as through these documents they\r\nhear the voice of the living Word of God. Here\r\nthen is a subject on which there exists a distressing\r\nconfusion, and, moreover, a subject in which ignorance\r\nplays no small part. Save with a few devout souls who\r\nhave made a long and continuous study of the Scriptures,\r\nit may be doubted whether there is any widespread\r\nknowledge of the actual message of the Old\r\nTestament, even among Christian people. There\r\nare certainly many people willing to defend the\r\nauthority of the Bible who spend very little time in\r\nreading it. The favourite Psalms and the evangelical\r\npassages of Isaiah are probably well known, and\r\nbeyond this there is but the knowledge gained in\r\nearly days, from which stand out in the memory\r\nthe personalities of Samson and Saul, David and\r\nGoliath, and Daniel in the lion's den, together with\r\nthe impressive stories of the Flood, the destruction\r\nof Sodom and Gomorrah, the crossing of the Red\r\nSea, and the fall of Jericho. A very little is probably\r\ncarried away from the public reading of the Scriptures\r\nin places of worship. It cannot be said that this\r\nacquaintance conveys any real impression of the\r\nmagnificent message that lies embedded in these\r\nthirty-nine books which go to make up the Old\r\nTestament. Now whatever harm may be charged to\r\nthe modern methods, it can at least be claimed thatix\r\nneglected portions have been carefully studied, the\r\nmeaning of obscure passages discovered, and much\r\nof importance and interest brought to light; but\r\nmore than this, it has been discovered that the\r\nessential message of the Old Testament lies largely\r\napart from those narratives and personalities that\r\nimpress the superficial reader, and rather in the\r\nrecord of a gradual development of the conception of\r\nGod and of His purpose in calling Israel to be the\r\nrecipient of His self-disclosure. It has been found\r\nthat the striking figures of the landscape are of less\r\nimportance than the road that winds among them\r\nalong which revelation moves to its final goal.\nIt may be objected that the new inspiration, which\r\nso many who have studied the Scriptures by these\r\nmethods claim to have felt, throws quite a new\r\nemphasis on our conception of the Old Testament\r\nand is revolutionary of all that we have been accustomed\r\nto believe concerning it; that the methods\r\nare such as could not legitimately be applied to the\r\nWord of God, and are the products of a criticism\r\nwhich is puffed up with a sense of its own superiority;\r\nand that the results are discreditable to the Old\r\nTestament, since they allege that some of the narratives\r\nare unhistorical, some passages and even whole books\r\nunauthentic, and traditions on which the gravest\r\nissues have been staked shown to have nothing more\r\nthan a legendary basis. There is much in thesex\r\nobjections that is natural, but much that is misunderstanding.\r\nIt is true that the contribution which the\r\nOld Testament makes to religion is estimated differently\r\nfrom what it was fifty years ago, and it must be\r\nallowed that this brings a charge of having misunderstood\r\nthe Scriptures against generations of scholars\r\nand saints. But it is admitted that all matters of\r\nknowledge are open to misunderstanding. It is no\r\nargument against the conception that the earth moves\r\nround the sun, that the contrary idea was held in\r\nother ages. We know that the understanding of the\r\nOld Testament has been obscured, often by those\r\nwho ought to have been the greatest authorities on\r\nits meaning. Jesus read into the Scriptures a meaning\r\nunrecognised by the authorities of His day, and\r\ndealt with them in a fashion that was regarded as\r\nrevolutionary. To some of the Scriptures He appealed\r\nas to a final authority, but others He regarded as\r\nimperfect and only suited to the time in which they\r\nwere written. The Jews of His day venerated every\r\nletter of the sacred writings, and regarded the very\r\ncopies of the Law as sacred to the touch, and yet on\r\ntheir understanding of the Scriptures they rejected\r\nthe mission and message of Jesus. Christian scholarship\r\nhas undoubtedly followed rather after the Rabbis\r\nthan after Christ. The message of the Old Testament\r\nthat the new methods have made clear\r\ncertainly appears to be more in conformity with thexi\r\nSpirit of Christ than with that of His opponents, and if\r\nthis is revolutionary then it is no new thing; religion\r\nalways moves along such lines.\nGreat offence has been caused and insuperable\r\nprejudice aroused among many by the name under\r\nwhich these methods have become known. The\r\nname, \"higher criticism,\" conveys to most people a\r\nsuggestion of carping fault-finding and an assumption\r\nof superiority. This is due to an entire misunderstanding\r\nof a technical term. Criticism is\r\nnothing more than the exercise of the faculty of\r\njudgment, and, moreover, judgment that ought to\r\nbe perfectly fair. The sinister suggestion that is\r\nconveyed in the word is due to the fact that our\r\ncriticisms are so often biassed by personal prejudices.\r\nBut this only condemns our faults, and not the\r\nmethod. \"Higher\" criticism does not mean any\r\nassumption of superiority, but is simply a term\r\nused to distinguish it from \"lower\" criticism. The\r\ncriticism that endeavours to ascertain the original\r\ntext by a comparison of the various documents\r\navailable is called lower, and that which deals\r\nwith matters higher up the stream of descent by\r\nwhich the writings have been conveyed to us, namely,\r\nmatters of date and authorship, is called higher\r\ncriticism. It might well be called literary and historical\r\ncriticism, in distinction from textual criticism.\r\nIt employs historical methods, and uses the simplexii\r\ntests of comparison and contemporaneity. For the\r\nunderstanding of a particular age, it prefers those\r\ndocuments that describe the times in which they\r\nwere written, and give indirect evidence, rather than\r\nthose histories which were written long after the event\r\nand which reveal a purpose other than the strictly\r\nhistorical. Fortunately, we have in the Old Testament\r\nmany such contemporary and indirect witnesses\r\nin the writings of the Prophets. 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Faithful both to the text and the burning questions that sit on our broken hearts, Rosensaft has elegantly and audaciously provided his readers a pathway to pursue justice, find comfort and continue to seek beauty in this world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eRabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ePh.D.\u003c\/strong\u003e, Senior Rabbi, Park Avenue Synagogue; author, \u003cem\u003eFor Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Menachem Rosensaft's evocative, heartfelt work is among of the most informed and gut-wrenching attempts to understand belief and comfort in the Divine in the shadow of the Holocaust. More than that, it is a strong and compelling reminder that understanding the Shoah and its legacies requires knowledge of the history and openness to the psychological and emotional resonance of such immense loss. Rosensaft accomplishes both with remarkable skill, helping us all to understand and to speak the 'unvarnished painful truth' (Burning Psalm 78) of the Shoah and its relevance to our lives today.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eRobert J. Williams, PhD.\u003c\/strong\u003e, Finci-Viterbi Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation; UNESCO Chair on Antisemitism and Holocaust Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Menachem Z. 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