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CHAPTER XII<br />
THE BIRTH OF BIBLICAL CRITICISM<br />
But <strong>the</strong> person, be he citizen or stranger, who acts defiantly,<br />
reviles <strong>the</strong> Lord; that person shall be cut off from among his<br />
people. Because he has spurned <strong>the</strong> word of <strong>the</strong> Lord.<br />
(Numbers 15:30-31)<br />
All Israel has a share in <strong>the</strong> world <strong>to</strong> come ... and <strong>the</strong>se are<br />
<strong>the</strong>y that have no share in <strong>the</strong> world <strong>to</strong> come... . He that says<br />
that <strong>the</strong> Torah is not from heaven.<br />
(Mishna, Sanhedrin 10:1)<br />
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? And against<br />
whom hast thou raised thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on<br />
high? Even against <strong>the</strong> Holy One of Israel.<br />
spoken by Isaiah in reply <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
Assyrian emissary, Rawshake. (I Kings 19:22)<br />
Ravshake was a Jewish apostate.<br />
(Sanhedrin 60a)<br />
Jonathan Eibeschutz's first heretical cryp<strong>to</strong>-Sabbatian<br />
Theological Seminary was in Prague. When Rabbi Chagiz<br />
urged a ban on registration of yeshiva students at Eibeschutz's<br />
yeshiva, Chagiz was under <strong>the</strong> impression that its registrants<br />
were good, God-fearing Jewish young men who aspired <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
independent study of <strong>the</strong> Torah and Talmudic texts. In reality<br />
<strong>the</strong>y were hand-picked students who had been recommended<br />
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