About 25 years ago, an article was written by Menachem Cohen, professor of Bible at Bar Ilan University and the head of the Mikraot Gedolot HaKeter project. The article, The Idea of the Sanctity of the Biblical Text and the Science of Textual Criticism describes how various commentators dealt with textual anomalies within the Bible. While I do grant the article doesn't deal with all the issues of Biblical Criticism, it is a good eye opener for those who wonder about things such as qeri/ketiv and supposed textual variants.

As I have discussed previously a couple of time, one of the issues currently in the Jewish community is how Jewish education seems to be failing those students who choose to attend a regular university. One of the problems I believe plagues the students is the lack of challenge that the students face in high school. Students are not asked to think about what they are studying, nor are they encouraged that their questions have merit and have been asked for 1000 years in various forms. This is true in regards to philosophical thought, historical analysis, and even the issue of the nature of the Bible. It is not enough anymore to merely recite a serious of Ani Maamin's every morning. We need to understand how the Rambam viewed Torah M'Sinai as well as how other medievals and moderns dealt with this subject. It is unfair to shelter the students from thinking about the religion that they are growing up with and will have to eventually pass down to another generation.