Whew! For a minute there I thought there might actually be Jews out there who frowned upon challenging the dictates of authority and would not permit criticism. Glad to see that's not the case.
Good luck on your Rabbinic civil authority project -- you might have better luck herding Viking cats.
Good luck on your Rabbinic civil authority project -- you might have better luck herding Viking cats.
I'm sorry you're so ignorant of your religion that you think that higher criticism is Jewish. Perhaps you should think of attending an 'Aish HaTorah Discovery seminar?
What makes the "higher criticism" a positive thing?
The so-called "higher criticism" school of "biblical scholarship" was invented by 19th-Century atheists and anti-Semites (not to mention Christian-haters) for the purpose of discrediting millennia of scriptural scholarship done for the purpose of revealing the Truth of G-D-given scriptures.
The "Reform branch of Judaism" adheres to the "higher criticism." I have asked many times, and have never received a coherent answer: "If you think that the Torah is just a fictitious hoax perpetrated by a conspiracy, why do you make such a ceremony out of Torah readings in your temples?"