The Jews and the Bible /
Jean-Christophe Attias ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
- 1 online resource.
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture .
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. .
"Originally published in French in 2012 under the title Les juifs et la Bible."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A strangely plural singular -- Bibles, canons, and languages -- Prophets, texts, and books -- Bible object, Bible in pieces -- The Bible in boxes -- The Bible in scrolls -- The Bible in person -- The Bible in pieces -- The improbable locus of an identity -- The Bible and Jewishness -- The Greeks, the Arabs, and us -- Facing the Christians : their scriptures and ours -- The Karaite temptation : sola scriptura? -- Reading the Bible at the risk of heresy -- Children, women, and the people -- The scholars' Bible -- The immense ocean of commentaries -- The Bible of the moderns -- The critical age, or the Bible humiliated -- Toward a postcritical age, or the Bible redeemed -- The political age, or the Bible manifesto.