The Hebrew Bible reborn : from Holy Scripture to the Book of Books : a history of biblical culture and the battles over the Bible in modern Judaism / By Yaacov Shavit, Mordechai Eran ; translated by Chaya Naor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaviṭ, Yaʻaḳov, 1944-

Contributor:

Eran, Mordechai.

Series:

Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; Bd. 38.

Studia Judaica, 0585-5306 ; Bd. 38

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish--History--19th century.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish--History--20th century.

Bible. Old Testament--Evidences, authority, etc.

Delitzsch, Friedrich, 1850-1922. Babel und Bibel.

Delitzsch, Friedrich.

Bible. Old Testament.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 566 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2007.

Contents:

Back to the Bible: the biblical revolution in the nineteenth century

Wellhausen and his school: the Jewish response to higher criticism

Truth shall spring out of the earth: the initial Jewish reaction to the archaeology of the ancient Near East

The Babel-Bibel controversy as a typological event

Friedrich Delitzsch and a second "Tower of Babel"

Delitzsch's three lectures on Babel and Bibel

The controversy in the German arena: theology vs. science

At war: within and without

Contra Delitzsch: revelation, originality and ethics

From Noah to the Sabbath

After Delitzsch: the Bible and Jewish Bible study in Germany between the two world wars

Bible criticism arrives in Eretz Israel: struggle and reception

"Extra-academic" Bible study and Bible criticism

Orthodox Bible criticism in Eretz Israel

The Bible as history and biblical archaeology: can two walk together? (Amos 3:3)

The national Bible vs. the cultural Bible

The golden age of biblical culture

From golden age to decline.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [541]-550) and index.

ISBN:

3110191415

9783110191417

OCLC:

122291236