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Surpassing wonder : the invention of the Bible and the Talmuds / Donald Harman Akenson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Akenson, Donald H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rabbinical literature.
- Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History.
- Talmud--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Talmud.
- Talmud--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (671 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What Noam Chomsky did for political commentary, and Stephen Hawking did for cosmology, Donald Harman Akenson does for the Bible and its interpreters - and the resulting conclusions are just as astounding. Surpassing Wonder illuminates how the greatest cultural artifacts of our civilization are related to one another and constitute the very core of our consciousness.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- 1 Introduction: Us and the Semites
- INVENTING THE COVENANT
- 2 Apparent Woe and Great Invention
- 3 Returning with Yahweh to Jerusalem
- 4 History's All-Embracing Arms: The Covenant
- INVENTIVE FECUNDITY AND JUDAHIST MULTIPLICITY: THE LATER SECOND TEMPLE ERA
- 5 Siloam's Teeming Pool -I
- 6 Siloam's Teeming Pool - II
- 7 Siloam's Teeming Pool - III
- THE INVENTION OF CHRISTIANITY
- 8 The Re-Invention of the Species
- 9 From Yeshua of Nazareth to Jesus the Christ
- THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH FAITH
- 10 Don't Stare at the Neighbours
- 11 The Hermetic, Perfect Mishnah
- 12 Taming the Mishnah: Tractate Aboth, the Tosefta, Sifra, and the Yerushalmi
- 13 The Bounteous Bavli and the Invention of the Dual Torah
- 14 Conclusion: Surpassing Wonder
- Notes
- APPENDICES
- A: Glossary
- A
- B
- C
- E
- F
- G
- H
- K
- L
- M
- N
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- Y
- B: Biblical Chronology
- C: The Manuscript Base of the Holy Scriptures
- D: Modern Biblical Scholarship and the Quest for the Historical Yeshua
- E: The Great Rabbinic Corpus: Access, Dating, Translation, Methods, and Queries
- General Index
- D
- I
- J
- O
- U
- V
- W
- Z
- Textual Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85860-2
- 9786612858604
- 0-7735-6841-7
- OCLC:
- 243614278
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