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Author Archives: Alan Jotkowitz

Alan Jotkowitz is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Jakobovits Center for Jewish medical Ethics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a senior physician at Soroka University Medical Center. The views expressed are his alone.

On the Authorship of the Torah

Alan Jotkowitz Apr 4, 16

by Dr. Alan Jotkowitz Benjamin Sommer, Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition, Yale University Press, 2015 The tenets of biblical criticism challenge traditional Jewish beliefs on a number of levels. Central to the documentary hypothesis is the contention that the Torah is composed of a patchwork of ancient texts written by human authors. The critics date the ...