Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Hoffman
Torah and the Academic World

Bible criticism got its start in “enlightened” academic Germany, but it found a devastating opponent in Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Hoffman, student and successor to Rabbi Hildesheimer. Both a Talmudic scholar and a master of secular knowledge, his polemics were as scathing as they were extensive. But for all his intellectual prowess, his true legacy was the personal example of the life he led.