Thinking about the Torah: A Philosopher Reads the Bible by Kenneth Seeskin is an interesting excursion into reading Torah Jewishly and philosophically. Seeskin wants us to think deeply about the issue the Torah and he kindly helps us by enlisting some of the great thinkers in the Jewish tradition: Maimonides, Buber, and Levinas, to name a few. Thinking through Torah has its limitations, and you will see this if you read this book. But it is a very fruitful limitation: knowing what we can know and what we can’t is a gift few people accept.
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