The Bible doesn’t offer its readers clear answers to the problems that humans face. Being obscure, even ambiguous to the common person, the Bible challenges the readers to interpret its material and bring in their own understandings of it. This allows for religious leaders to have the opportunity to reinterpret its obscure messages to apply its the laws to modern times. There are many biblical tales that are mysterious. They leave the reader with the opportunity to read into them the way they want to see things – or better yet, what they should see things. The Bible should be interpreted. We shouldn’t dismiss the parables within as mere “nice stories”. We should constantly be asking questions about what the Bible is trying to tell us. This book is for you if you are; a critical thinker interested in debating topics within Judaism appreciate the bringing to bear vast knowledge of other cultures and customs on the discussions about the Bible and Judaism
Dr. Israel Drazin served for thirty-one years in the US military and attained the rank of Brigadier General. He has a PhD in Judaic studies, a master's degree in psychology, a master's degree in Hebrew literature, and is an attorney and a rabbi. He developed the legal strategy that saved the military chaplaincy when its constitutionality was attacked in court, and received the Legion of Merit for his service. He was the scholar who recognized that Targum Onkelos incorporated hundreds of words from the Tannaitic Midrashim, edited around 400 CE, and therefore must have been composed after that date, a period much later than has been widely accepted. He is the author of twenty-five books, including a series of five volumes on the Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible, which he co-authored with Dr. Stanley M. Wagner, and a series of four books on the twelfth-century philosopher Moses Maimonides, the latest being Maimonides: Reason Above All, published by Gefen Publishing House.
