The making of the modern Jewish Bible
how scholars in Germany, Israel, and America transformed an ancient text
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Author
Publication
2011 - Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md, Maryland
Language
English
Word Count
61,750 words, Guess
Page Count
247 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25109181M
- ISBN-139781442205161
- OCLC Control Number707966838
- Library of Congress Control Number2011018085
Classifications
- DDC221.6088/296
- LCCBS1186 .L476 2011
Description
"Tracing its history from Moses Mendelssohn to today, Alan Levenson explores the factors that shaped what is the modern Jewish Bible and its centrality in Jewish life today. The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible explains how Jewish translators, commentators, and scholars made the Bible a keystone of Jewish life in Germany, Israel and America. Levenson argues that German Jews created a religious Bible, Israeli Jews a national Bible, and American Jews an ethnic one. In each site, scholars wrestled with the demands of the non-Jewish environment and their own indigenous traditions, trying to balance fidelity and independence from the commentaries of the rabbinic and medieval world."--Back cover.
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