The Bible - The Disicpline vs. Heschel

There is a Hebrew blessing that goes like this: "Blessed are you O LORD, our God, King of the universe for you have sanctified us by your commandments and commanded us to engross ourselves in the way of Torah." This is a great prayer! It got me thinking about the "way of Torah." What is Torah? For that matter, "What is the Bible?" I offer two different perspectives. The first comes from my tradition's definition of what the Bible is and the second comes from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. First, from The Discipline:

We believe that the books of the Old and New Testaments constitute the Holy Scriptures. They are the inspired and infallibly written Word of God, fully inerrant in their original manuscripts and superior to all human authority, and have been transmitted to the present without corruption of any essential doctrine. We believe that they contain all things necessary to salvation; so that whatever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man or woman that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation...

Now from Heschel's book, God in Search of Man:
Irrefutably, indestructibly, never wearied by time, the Bible wanders through the ages, giving itself with ease to all men, as if it belonged to every soul on earth. It speaks in every language and in every age. It benefits all the arts and does not compete with them. We all draw upon it, and it remains pure, inexhaustible and complete. In three thousand years it has not aged a day. It is a book that cannot die. Oblivion shuns its pages. Its power is not subsiding. In fact, it is still at the very beginning of its career, the full meaning of its content having hardly touched the threshold of our minds; like an ocean at the bottom of which countless pearls lie, waiting to be discovered, its spirit is still to be unfolded. Though its words seem plain and its idiom translucent, unnoticed meanings, undreamed-of intimations break forth constantly. More than two thousand years of reading and research have not succeeded in exploring its full meaning. Today it is as if it had never been touched, never been seen, as if we had not even begun to read it. Its spirit is too much for one generation to bear. Its words reveal more than we can absorb. All we usually accomplish is the attempt to appropriate a few single lines so that our spirit becomes synonymous with a passage (242).

I don't know about you but I would like my tradition's understanding of the Bible to reflect the sentiments of Heschel rather than taking a vanilla, "can be found anywhere" kind of position on the reliability and sufficiency of Scripture. Heschel - 1; The Discipline - 0.