Making of the Modern Jewish Bible: How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text by Levenson, Alan T.

Making of the Modern Jewish Bible: How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781442205161)

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Making of the Modern Jewish Bible: How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text by Levenson, Alan T.

Making of the Modern Jewish Bible: How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text

$90.00
Making of the Modern Jewish Bible: How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text by Levenson, Alan T.

Making of the Modern Jewish Bible: How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text

$90.00
Format: Hardcover
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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. In each site, a particular need --religion, nationalism, ethnicity --drove the enterprise of Bible study as scholars wrestled with the demands of the non-Jewish environment and their own indigenous traditions. Contrary to popular conceptions, the author argues that the modern period has been the golden age of Jewish Bible study.

Author: Alan T. Levenson
ISBN-10: 1442205164
ISBN-13: 9781442205161
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 07/07/2011
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

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Choice 02/01/2012
By Alan T. Levenson
By Alan T. Levenson
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Alan T. Levenson is the Schusterman/Josey Professor of Jewish Intellectual and Religious History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of several books, including Modern Jewish Thinkers: An Introduction, The Story of Joseph: A Journey of Jewish Interpretation, and Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism. Defenses of Jews & Judaism in Germany, 1871-1932.

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