How to Read the Jewish Bible

Zusatztext Very up-to-date and extremely readable scholarship. Best book available for introducing students from predominantly Christian / post-Christian backgrounds to the Jewishness of a book that most of them have hitherto experienced only as the first part of Christian Bible. Informationen zum Autor Marc Brettler is Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Literature and chair of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. His main areas of research are religious metaphors and the Bible, biblical historical texts, and women and the Bible. He is the author of several books and co-editor of The Jewish Study Bible. Klappentext Brettler focuses on reading the Hebrew Bible using a 'historical-critical method', explaining the literary conventions, ideological assumptions, and historical conditions that inform the Hebrew Bible and shows how modern critical scholarship and archaeological discoveries shed light on this fascinating and complex literature. Zusammenfassung Brettler focuses on reading the Hebrew Bible using a 'historical-critical method', explaining the literary conventions, ideological assumptions, and historical conditions that inform the Hebrew Bible and shows how modern critical scholarship and archaeological discoveries shed light on this fascinating and complex literature.

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• Authors: Marc Brettler, Marc Zvi Brettler, Marc Zvi (Dora Golding Professor of Bibl Brettler, Marc Zvi (Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Literature Brettler, Brettler Marc Zvi
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.2007
• EAN: 9780195325225
• ISBN: 978-0-19-532522-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Judaism / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities