The Hebrew Bible Reborn : : From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism /

The Hebrew Bible Reborn : : From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism / / Yaacov Shavit, Mordechai Eran.

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This work, the first of its kind, describes all the aspects of the Bible revolution in Jewish history in the last two hundred years, as well as the emergence of the new biblical culture. It describes the circumstances and processes that turned Holy Scripture into the Book of Books and into the histo...

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VerfasserIn:
Shavit, Yaacov,
Eran, Mordechai,
MitwirkendeR:
Naor, Chaya,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2008]
©2007
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums , 38
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Physical Description:1 online resource (566 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part One. The Biblical Revolution in Modern Jewish
  • History and the Struggle over the Bible in the Nineteenth
  • Century
  • Chapter 1. “Back to the Bible”: The Biblical
  • Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 2. Wellhausen and his School: The Jewish
  • Response to Higher Criticism
  • Chapter 3. “Truth Shall Spring out of the Earth”:
  • The Initial Jewish Reaction to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near
  • East
  • Part Two. The War of The Tablets
  • Chapter 4. The Babel-Bibel Controversy as a
  • Typological Event
  • Chapter 5. Friedrich Delitzsch and a Second ‘Tower
  • of Babel’
  • Chapter 6. Delitzsch’s Three Lectures on Babel and
  • Bibel
  • Chapter 7. The Controversy in the German Arena:
  • Theology vs. Science
  • Chapter 8. At War – Within and Without
  • Chapter 9. Contra Delitzsch: Revelation,
  • Originality and Ethics
  • Chapter 10. From Noah to the Sabbath
  • Part Three. In Search of Jewish and Hebrew Bible
  • Study
  • Chapter 11. After Delitzsch: The Bible and Jewish
  • Bible Study in Germany between the Two World Wars
  • Chapter 12. Bible Criticism Arrives in Eretz
  • Israel: Struggle and Reception
  • Chapter 13. “Extra-academic” Bible Study and Bible
  • Criticism
  • Chapter 14. Orthodox Bible Criticism in Eretz
  • Israel
  • Chapter 15. The Bible as History and Biblical
  • Archaeology: “Can Two Walk Together?” (Amos 3:3)
  • Part Four. The Well of the Bible: The Biblical
  • Culture in the Jewish Society in Eretz Israel (1882–2005)
  • Chapter 16. The National Bible vs. the Cultural
  • Bible
  • Chapter 17. The Golden Age of Biblical
  • Culture
  • Chapter 18. From “Golden Age” to Decline?
  • Afterword
  • Backmatter

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