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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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Spinoza as Jewish Bible critic
- pt. 1. The emergence of modern Jewish Bible studies in Germany. Introduction : starting with Germany
- Mendelssohn's Bible : the ideal of Jewish self-sufficiency
- Samson Raphael Hirsch : the chimera of self-explanatory Scripture
- Benno Jacob and the call for a "Jewish" Bible scholarship
- The Martin Buber-Franz Rosenzweig Bible : culture or religion?
- pt. 2. Zionism and the creation of a national Bible. Introduction : the Bible in modern Israel
- Early Zionism and the Bible : Ahad Haam and his opponents
- The Bible as national linchpin : David Ben-Gurion and his opponents
- Nehema Leibowitz's Bible : returning tradition to the text
- pt. 3. The flowering of Jewish Bible studies in North America. Introduction : America and the Jewish Bible
- Finding a Jewish voice : Nahum Sarna and Robert Alter
- Seeking an American Jewish Bible
- Conclusion: is there a "Jewish school" of modern Bible study?
