Jean-Christophe Attias ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xv, 235 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
GENERAL NOTES
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"Originally published in French in 2012 under the title Les juifs et la Bible."
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Juifs et la Bible.
Language (when part of a heading)
English
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Bible., Old Testament-- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish-- History.