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The Jews and the Bible
Uniform Title
Juifs et la Bible. English
Title
The Jews and the Bible / Jean-Christophe Attias ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
ISBN
9780804789073 (cloth : alk. paper)
080478907X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804793193 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804793190 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
Physical Description
xv, 235 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes
"Originally published in French in 2012 under the title Les juifs et la Bible."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 16, 2014
Series
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A strangely plural singular
Bibles, canons, and languages
Prophets, texts, and books
Bible object, Bible in pieces
The Bible in boxes
The Bible in scrolls
The Bible in person
The Bible in pieces
The improbable locus of an identity
The Bible and Jewishness
The Greeks, the Arabs, and us
Facing the Christians : their scriptures and ours
The Karaite temptation : sola scriptura?
Reading the Bible at the risk of heresy
Children, women, and the people
The scholars' Bible
The immense ocean of commentaries
The Bible of the moderns
The critical age, or the Bible humiliated
Toward a postcritical age, or the Bible redeemed
The political age, or the Bible manifesto.
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