The Closed Book : : How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible / / Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg.
A groundbreaking reinterpretation of early Judaism, during the millennium before the study of the Bible took center stageEarly Judaism is often described as the religion of the book par excellence—a movement built around the study of the Bible and steeped in a culture of sacred bookishness that evol...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Citation Practices
- Rabbinic Literature: Editions Cited
- Introductory Remarks: The People of the Book before the Book
- 1 A Makeshift Scripture: Tales of Biblical Loss, Reconstruction, and Forgery
- 2 A Book That Kills: Rabbinic Stories about Lethal Encounters with Biblical Text
- 3 A Neglected Text: Mistaken Readings, Bible Avoidance, and the Dangers of Reading as We Know It
- 4 A Spoken Scripture: Unlinking the Written from the Oral in Rabbinic Practices of Bible Reading
- 5 A Third Torah: Oral Torah, Written Torah, and the Embrace of a Spoken Scripture
- 6 A Closed Book: The Torah Scroll as the Body of Revelation
- Concluding Remarks: From the Third Torah to God’s Monograph
- Index