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Zusatztext for the gutsiness of his intellectual convictions and for playing a major role in bringing the harvest of biblical scholarship to a much broader audience! we are in Joshua Berman's debt. Informationen zum Autor Joshua Berman was raised in New York City and attended Princeton University as an undergraduate where he received his B.A. in Religion. After emigrating to Israel in 1987, he received ordination as an orthodox rabbi, and pursued doctoral studies in Bible at Bar-Ilan University. He lectures in Bible at Bar-Ilan University and at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, where he was a research fellow during the 2004-06 academic years. Klappentext Joshua Berman engages the text of the Hebrew Bible from a novel perspective - as a document of social and political thought. He proposes that the Pentateuch can be read as the earliest prescription on record for the establishment of an egalitarian polity. Zusammenfassung Joshua Berman engages the text of the Hebrew Bible from a novel perspective - as a document of social and political thought. He proposes that the Pentateuch can be read as the earliest prescription on record for the establishment of an egalitarian polity.

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• Authors: Joshua A Berman, Joshua A. Berman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2008
• EAN: 9780195374704
• ISBN: 978-0-19-537470-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 245 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Politik und Staat, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, RELIGION / Judaism / General, Religion - Biblical Studies, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Judaism / Talmud, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, RELIGION / Judaism / Theology, Theology, Christianity, Judaism, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Judaism: sacred texts and revered writings, Judaism: Sacred Texts, Criticism & Exegesis Of Sacred Texts, Judaism: theology