Re: Little Would a Goy Know

בתאריך יום שני, 21 במאי 2012 22:52:03 UTC+1, מאת Yisroel Markov:

What do you mean by "truth" in this context? If it's the authorial
intent, Cindy and I have already mentioned that at least in Rabbinic
Judaism the intent of the authors of Scripture (but not of its
interpreters and commentators!) is irrelevant.

Your're just moving the problem forwards in time by one. We've established that a Torah scholar is not an expert in the Torah, in fact he is ignorant or blinded by tradition to even the most basic observations about the text made by Biblical scholars. But we can argue that he's an expert in what other people have said about the Torah. He does scholarship about scholarship.

But if he's so careless about what is theoretically his root, source material, how careful is he likely to be about the Rambam?



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