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The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible
How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text
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2011
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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.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-0516-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-0518-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
248
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter 1. Spinoza as Jewish Bible Critic No access Pages 9 - 24
Chapter 2. Mendelssohn’s Bible: The Ideal of Jewish Self-Sufficiency No access
Chapter 3. Samson Raphael Hirsch: The Chimera of Self-Explanatory Scripture No access
Chapter 4. Benno Jacob and the Call for a “Jewish” Bible Scholarship No access
Chapter 5. The Martin Buber–Franz Rosenzweig Bible: Culture or Religion? No access
Chapter 6. Early Zionism and the Bible: Ahad Haam and His Opponents No access
Chapter 7. The Bible as National Linchpin: David Ben-Gurion and His Opponents No access
Chapter 9. Finding a Jewish Voice: Nahum Sarna and Robert Alter No access
Chapter 10. Seeking an American Jewish Bible No access
Conclusion: Is There a “Jewish School” of Modern Bible Study? No access Pages 209 - 214
