Jewish Views on the Hebrew Bible
One of the principal concerns of classical Jewish thought is the importance of biblical texts and their interpretation.
Jewish thought views the interpretation of biblical texts as very important. Another concern of traditional Judaism is the application of what is known as “halakhah” (Jewish Law) as derived from biblical and rabbinic sources.
With that in mind, “extracting” as much as possible from a biblical passage is of critical importance to a Jewish epistemology. The process of reading, interpreting, and elucidating biblical texts is an ancient Jewish pre-occupation.
