Michoel Stern has written a fascinating and worthwhile book that addresses a number of the troubling texts in the Hebrew Scriptures. Taking a traditional Jewish perspective, he brings together numerous reflections and insights from within the oral rabbinical tradition. While readers may not necessarily agree with certain interpretations presented, they can be grateful for Stern’s […]
Review: David Novack
Michoel Stern’s Is the Good Book Bad? is a very well researched and very well reasoned response to those who not only reject the Bible as being archaic and primitive, but who also reject the Bible as being the source of much immoral violence in Western Civilization. Stern makes a compelling case against such prejudice […]