Moses Shapira’s 9 May 1883 Letter to Hermann Strack

Moses Shapira’s 9 May 1883 Letter to Hermann Strack

In early 1883, Moses W. Shapira came upon a book by a German scholar named Friedrich Bleek, published in 1860 under the title, Einleitung in das Alte Testament, [Introduction to the Old Testament]. The book presented a critical, academic approach to the study of the...