The Sacred Chain.

Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought | June 22, 1995| | Copyright

How do we write religious history? are we caught without recourse between the alternatives of fundamentalism and complete disbelief in the historical foundations of our religions? These questions are raised by Norman Cantor's The Sacred Chain, a book claiming to be an up-to-date account of the whole of Jewish history.(1)

The innocent reader will learn a number of remarkable things from this book, should he or she take it at its own valuation. Among them are the following: All biblical history before the time of the monarchy is romantic fiction, without "a shred" of ...

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