This past year Academic Studies Press has published a number of new books in the field of Jewish Studies. They consist both of translations into English of already published works, and new books. Among the translations that they have published is Isaac Heinemann’s The Reasons for the Commandments in Jewish Thought, a translation [...]
An interesting episode in Koranic scholarship. A few salient points. First, it seems that scholars of rabbinic literature from Hebrew University aren’t the only ones who keep their scholarly research hidden. Second, the theory that parts of the Koran were originally written in Syriac is interesting. I recently linked to an [...]
There has been an interesting exchange concerning the goals and methodology of the historical-critical method of scholarship. The catalyst for this latest discussion was a post at biblicalia which brought a quote from C.S. Lewis that included the following,
The Historical Point of View, put briefly, means that when a learned man is presented with any [...]
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