Canonical sacred texts betray their own youthful radical origins

Evidence

Goldziher regarded it as the historian’s task continually to strip away the layers of additions, amendations, and interpretations, eventually to uncover core and pristine religious ideas and ideals. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 396 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sacred texts must be studied by stripping away later interpretive layers — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 396; Reading scripture as literature requires a secular historical development of sensibilities; Doubting divine inspiration of scripture shifted weight onto historical reliability of the Gospels (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Sacred texts must be studied by stripping away later interpretive layers #expands (0.82) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 396
• Doubting divine inspiration of scripture shifted weight onto historical reliability of the Gospels #expands (0.78)
• Reading scripture as literature requires a secular historical development of sensibilities #expands (0.75)
• Archaic language in devotional texts can mislead historical dating #exemplifies (0.72) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 406