Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>]

> In order to understand the Torah, especially concepts such as these,
> you have to go to JEWISH sources.  There is no other authority.


     I have been enjoying this interesting discussion.  But I'm a little
     confused.  Are you saying Jacob Milgrom isn't a Jewish source?  The
     Anchor series is an interfaith work (including Moshe Greenberg of
     Hebrew University for the Ezekiel volume), and in any case Milgrom
     also writes for the JPS Torah commentary (the Numbers volume).  That
     seems to place his commentary on Torah as a reasonably Jewish source.

     Paul Schaefer


Sorry - I was comparing him to the great commentators, and the 
Mishna, and the Talmud, and the Kabbalists, I don't know how versed 
he is in them, in order to really understand, one has to be familiar 
with the whole unbroken chain of oral tradition, which was 
subsequently written down.

Shoshanna