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In this series, Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin offers readers comprehensive, eye-opening, easy-to-read revelations showing that the Bible purposely avoids presenting clear descriptions of the thinking and behavior of God and biblical people. Ambiguities and obscurities appear in virtually every situation and invite readers to imagine their own details. The narratives become like parables, prompting us to ask why a biblical character acted as he or she did, and to learn from our own answers.
Dr. Drazin emphasizes that proper understanding comes only from asking questions, and shows that, contrary to what many think, the Hebrew Bible tells us almost nothing about God, what God did, and what the founding patriarchs thought and did. With this understanding, readers will not be surprised that ancient and modern commentators, religious and non-religious, interpret the Torah so differently.
This first volume of the five-volume series applies that approach to the Book of Genesis, from the story of creation through the lives of the patriarchs and their families.
Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin served thirty-one years in the US military, attaining the rank of brigadier general. He is a rabbi and an attorney, holds a PhD, and is the author of many books on the Bible, Targum Onkelos and Maimonides.