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How to read the Bible
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Title
How to read the Bible / Marc Zvi Brettler.
ISBN
082760775X
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Philadelphia, PA : Jewish Publication Society, 2005.
Physical Description
xiv, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 16, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-360) and indexes.
Contents
Reading as a Jew and as a scholar
What is the Bible, anyway?
The art of reading the Bible
A brief history of Israel
With scissors and paste : the sources of Genesis
Creation vs. creationism : Genesis 1-3 as myth
The ancestors as heroes
Biblical law : codes and collections
Incense is offensive to me : the cult in ancient Israel
"In the fortieth year
Moses addressed the Israelites : Deuteronomy
"The walls came tumbling down" : reading Joshua
"May my lord King David live forever" : royal ideology in Samuel and Judges
"For Israel tore away from the house of David" : reading Kings
Revisionist history : reading Chronicles
Introduction to prophecy
"Let justice well up like water" : reading Amos
"They shall beat their swords into plowshares" : reading (first) Isaiah
"I will make this house like Shiloh" : reading Jeremiah
"I will be for them a mini-temple" : reading Ezekiel
"Comfort, oh comfort my people" : the exile and beyond
"Those that sleep in the dust
will awake" : Zechariah, apocalyptic literature, and Daniel
Prayer of many hearts : reading Psalms
"Acquire wisdom" : reading Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
"Being but dust and ashes" : reading Job
"Drink deep of love!" : reading Song of Songs
"Why are you so kind
when I am a foreigner?" : reading Ruth vs. Esther
The creation of the Bible.
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