Making the Bible Modern : : Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America / / Penny Schine Gold.
The Bible has played a critical role in the story of Judaism, modernity, and identity. Penny Schine Gold examines the arena of children's education and the role of the Bible in the reshaping of Jewish identity, especially in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, when a second generation of...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 1 chart/graph, 1 halftone, 5 line drawings |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Bible in Traditional Jewish Culture
- 2. The Challenge of Modernity
- 3. The American Scene
- 4. Teaching the Bible to Children
- 5. Bible Stories Retold: Theory into Practice
- 6. Different Audiences, Different Texts
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1. Popular Bible Story Collections, 1915-1936
- Appendix 2. Sources Used to Assess the Popularity of Bible Story Collections
- Notes
- Index