The making of the modern Jewish Bible : how scholars in Germany, Israel, and America transformed an ancient text /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
2011.
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| Summary: | 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 withthe 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. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Religion Collection Worldwide EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1283151928 9781283151924 1442205180 9781442205185 1442205164 9781442205161 9786613151926 6613151920 |
