Article: Book Reviews in the Journal of Biblical Literature 125 Years in Retrospect

In his presidential address to the Society of Biblical Literature delivered at Haverford College on December 26, 1916, Morris Jastrow (1861-1922) reflected on the role of the critic ("Constructive Elements in the Critical Study of the Old Testament," JBL 36 [1917]: 1-30). Jastrow noted that "the critic has never been a popular figure. At his worst he is an iconoclast, at his best he makes us feel uncomfortable. ... The biblical critic ... fortunately appeared at a time when it was no longer fashionable to burn people at the stake, but he has been alternatively denounced as an enemy to the church and as a foe to religion" (p. 1). Despite such risks, Jastrow argued, the fundamental commitment ...

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