More than forty years have passed since Louis Jacobs first put
forward the argument that traditionally observant Jews have no
reason to take issue with the results obtained by the historical
critics in their investigation into the Bible and the other
classical sources of Judaism. In his numerous works on Jewish
theology and in lectures worldwide, Jacobs has argued that the
traditional doctrine which claims that 'the Torah is from Heaven'
can and should be maintained -- provided that the word 'from' is
understood in a non-fundamentalist way to denote that there is a
human as well as a divine element in the Torah: God revealing His
will not only to but through the Jewish people in their historical
experiences as they reached out to Him.
As a result of these views, which were first published in the
still-controversial text. We Have Reason to Believe, the
Anglo-Jewish Orthodox hierarchy banned Jacobs from serving as an
Orthodox rabbi. This was the cause of the notorious 'Jacobs
affair', which culminated in the creation of the New London
Synagogue and, eventually, in the establishment of the Masorti
movement in the UK with strong, affinities with Conservative
Judaism in the United States.
In this new book, Louis Jacobs examines afresh all the issues
involved. He does so objectively but with passion, meeting the
objections put forward by critics from the various trends within
the Jewish world, both Orthodox and Reform, and inviting readers to
follow the argument and make up their own minds.
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