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Jews and the Bible.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Attias, Jean-Christophe.
- Series:
- Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. -- Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish--History.
- Jews--Identity.
- Judaism--Doctrines.
- Local Subjects:
- Bible. -- Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish--History.
- Jews--Identity.
- Judaism--Doctrines.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser.
- Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C Ser.
- Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C
- Place of Publication:
- Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Despite its deceptively simple title, this book ponders the thorny issue of the place of the Bible in Jewish religion and culture. By thoroughly examining the complex link that the Jews have formed with the Bible, Jewish scholar Jean-Christophe Attias raises the uncomfortable question of whether it is still relevant for them.Jews and the Bible reveals how the Jews define themselves in various times and places with the Bible, without the Bible, and against the Bible. Is it divine revelation or national myth? Literature or legislative code? One book or a disparate library? Text or object? For th
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transcriptions and Biblical and Rabbinical Quotations
- Prologue
- A Strangely Plural Singular
- Bibles, Canons, and Languages
- Prophets, Texts, and Books
- The Bible in Boxes
- The Bible in Scrolls
- The Bible in Person
- The Bible in Pieces
- The Bible and Jewishness
- The Greeks, the Arabs, and Us
- Facing the Christians: Their Scriptures and Ours
- The Karaite Temptation: Scripture Alone?
- Children, Women, the People
- The Scholars’ Bible
- The “Immense Ocean” of Commentaries
- The Critical Age, or the Bible Humiliated
- Toward a Postcritical Age, or the Bible Redeemed
- The Political Age, or the Bible Manifesto
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Glossary
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780804793216
- 0804793212
- OCLC:
- 1198931716
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