Benjamin D. Sommer is professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He lives in Teaneck, NJ.
“[A] groundbreaking work . . . Clearly written and broad in
application . . . an important read for Jewish laypeople, clergy,
and scholars . . . [and] also likely to appeal to non-Jews who want
to make modern biblical scholarship relevant for
believers.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Sommer lays out his argument in six well-informed and cogent
chapters.”—Marvin A. Sweeney, AJS Review
Finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Awards in the category
of Scholarship
Winner of the 2016 Goldstein-Goren Award for the best book in
Jewish Thought
Finalist in the philosophy and Jewish thought categories for the
2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award given by the Association for
Jewish Studies
“The breadth, creativity, and boldness of Sommer’s book along with
the clarity of his writing impressed the judges.”—Prize Committee,
2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award
"In uncovering the multilayered concepts of revelation in the
biblical traditions Benjamin Sommer provides us the biblical roots
of modern Jewish thought on revelation and its relation to
authority and tradition. This is an extraordinary book in biblical
criticism and in Jewish thought and above all one of its most
illuminating contributions is how these two fields of inquiry
enrich one another."—Moshe Halbertal, Professor of Jewish
Thought and Philosophy, Hebrew University and Gruss Professor of
Law, New York University School of Law
"This is a groundbreaking book . . . one of the most original works
in Jewish theology that I have read in years."—Gary A. Anderson,
Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology, University of Notre
Dame
“Benjamin Sommer's extraordinary mix of scholarly rigor, historical
imagination, lucid writing and honest theological concern
brilliantly illuminate every subject he touches, and this most
central of subjects, revelation and authority, is no exception.
With this volume he offers scholarly and general readers alike
refreshingly new ways of looking at some of the oldest and yet most
pressing questions, with acuity and grace.”—Yehudah Mirsky, author
of Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution
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