I don't know if you have head of them but it sounds like you would really like the Judaism DeMystified podcast. Its run by friends of mine. They have multiple episodes on this
I am not inclined to agree with your note 3, about Joshua's words implying a geocentric model. Even today we speak of the sun rising and setting. (Sunrise and sunset are even scientific terms.) Notwithstanding that the sun neither rises nor sets. But it is convenient to express ourselves in the manner that we perceive it happening. And for the same reason Joshua might have expressed himself as he did.
>>>This idea of the ahistoricity of Adam and Eve / Noach / Creation, are not meant to detract from the Torah’s Divine origins....I believe that the attitude of God allowing for interpretation to such an extent as guided by evolving reason is a testament to the attitude a Noble Divine Being would employ out of care and understanding for Its creation....The Text of the Torah is Perfect - but that does not entail reading it only in face value. It is Perfect, in my estimation, precisely because it was given to a people familiar with terrible “religious” material.
You have provided no good reason to believe in any of this: god, his Torah, anything supernatural, etc
It's unfortunate that so many approach reconciliation and concordance in this way, without ever even considering for a moment that the thing you need to give good evidence for is always assumed from the get go, like it has been here.
The mabul was understood by gamaroh, midrash and early commentators as a global real event. It never happened. acja documents this - check his index of posts.
See altercockerjewishatheist.blogspot.com as such your apologetics fail. On a factual level Torah is full of falsehoods and twisting oneself into a philosophical pretzel is painful.
As for both בראשית and שמות I would highly recommend Leon Kass, MD. IMHO, as close as possible to Maimonidean interpretation. Very eye opening.
Biblical criticism? I agree (and consider myself a student of) Rav Bin-Nun (Gush Ezyon) that at best it is lazy, at worst, disingenuous.
I don't know if you have head of them but it sounds like you would really like the Judaism DeMystified podcast. Its run by friends of mine. They have multiple episodes on this
youtube.com/@judaismdemystified
Done and thanks. I have heard and know many of the speakers. It’s also why I think Orthodoxy should have no problem embracing knowledge.
I have a friend, a mismatch of YU no less, who claims to be a flat earther and will argue all the way down to ad absurdum.
The simple retort is X ² + y² + z² = r².
Musmach although that was a funny auto correct😄….
I am not inclined to agree with your note 3, about Joshua's words implying a geocentric model. Even today we speak of the sun rising and setting. (Sunrise and sunset are even scientific terms.) Notwithstanding that the sun neither rises nor sets. But it is convenient to express ourselves in the manner that we perceive it happening. And for the same reason Joshua might have expressed himself as he did.
>>>This idea of the ahistoricity of Adam and Eve / Noach / Creation, are not meant to detract from the Torah’s Divine origins....I believe that the attitude of God allowing for interpretation to such an extent as guided by evolving reason is a testament to the attitude a Noble Divine Being would employ out of care and understanding for Its creation....The Text of the Torah is Perfect - but that does not entail reading it only in face value. It is Perfect, in my estimation, precisely because it was given to a people familiar with terrible “religious” material.
You have provided no good reason to believe in any of this: god, his Torah, anything supernatural, etc
It's unfortunate that so many approach reconciliation and concordance in this way, without ever even considering for a moment that the thing you need to give good evidence for is always assumed from the get go, like it has been here.
The mabul was understood by gamaroh, midrash and early commentators as a global real event. It never happened. acja documents this - check his index of posts.
See altercockerjewishatheist.blogspot.com as such your apologetics fail. On a factual level Torah is full of falsehoods and twisting oneself into a philosophical pretzel is painful.