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The Bible's many voices / Michael Carasik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carasik, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (600 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The most common English translations of the Bible often sound like a single, somewhat archaic voice. In fact, the Bible is made up of many separate books composed by multiple writers in a wide range of styles and perspectives. It is, as Michael Carasik demonstrates, not a remote text reserved for churches and synagogues but rather a human document full of history, poetry, politics, theology, and spirituality. Using historic, linguistic, anthropological, and theological sources, Carasik helps us distinguish between the Jewish Bible's voices-the mythic, the histori
- Contents:
- The sound of the biblical voices
- Historical voices
- Theological voices
- Legal voices
- Prophetic voices
- Women's voices
- Voices of the wise
- Foreign voices
- Voices of song and legend
- Echoes and reverberations.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780827611610
- 0827611617
- 9780827611344
- 082761134X
- OCLC:
- 870646996
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