Reflections of an Honest Skeptic: An Unorthodox Approach to Genesis

With his personal and somewhat idiosyncratic approach to the Torah text, Michael Malina comments on the familiar Genesis stories with an eye to asking the questions that the text invites, but that the traditional commentaries rarely attempt to answer. This analysis reveals a deep respect for the ancient tradition, yet a fresh skepticism and twenty-first century sensibility concerning the rabbis' efforts to square the Torah's words with the doctrines of rabbinic Judaism as they evolved over time.