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

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

Levenson, Alan T.

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JudaismBible Studies

ISBN10: 1442205172
ISBN13: 9781442205178
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Sep 14 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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