“"Accept the true from whatever source it come," is sound rabbinic doctrine — even if it be from the pages of a devout Christian expositor or of an iconoclastic Biblical scholar, Jewish or non-Jewish.”

—  Joseph H. Hertz

Preface (p. vii)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8

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