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The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible [electronic resource] : How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text.

Publication details: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2011.Description: 1 online resource (262)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1283151928
  • 9781283151924
  • 1442205180
  • 9781442205185
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 221.6088/296 22
LOC classification:
  • BS1186 .L476 2011
Online resources: Summary: 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 withthe 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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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 withthe 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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