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

The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible: How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781442205178)

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

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

$37.00
The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible: How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text by Levenson, Alan T.

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

$37.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Alan T. Levenson
ISBN-10: 1442205172
ISBN-13: 9781442205178
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2016
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
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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