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The Jews and the Bible / Jean-Christophe Attias ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
LIBRA BS1186 .A8713 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Attias, Jean-Christophe, author.
- Series:
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
- Standardized Title:
- Juifs et la Bible. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish--History.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Judaism--Doctrines.
- Judaism.
- Jews--Identity.
- Jews.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 235 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- A strangely plural singular
- Bibles, canons, and languages
- Prophets, texts, and books
- Bible object, Bible in pieces
- The Bible in boxes
- The Bible in scrolls
- The Bible in person
- The Bible in pieces
- The improbable locus of an identity
- The Bible and Jewishness
- The Greeks, the Arabs, and us
- Facing the Christians : their scriptures and ours
- The Karaite temptation : sola scriptura?
- Reading the Bible at the risk of heresy
- Children, women, and the people
- The scholars' Bible
- The immense ocean of commentaries
- The Bible of the moderns
- The critical age, or the Bible humiliated
- Toward a postcritical age, or the Bible redeemed
- The political age, or the Bible manifesto.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in French in 2012 under the title Les juifs et la Bible."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804789073
- 080478907X
- 9780804793193
- 0804793190
- OCLC:
- 880237344
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