Who's afraid of a little biblical criticism?
How to read the Torah - 7
It always amazes me that people are ready to throw out the Bible because of contradictions in form or style between passages or books, as if they’d discovered this great and hidden mystery that the (in their minds, inept) editors of the Bible had tried (or not, as it were) to hide from us.
Louis Jacobs, in the introduction to a book1 he wrote defending h…