The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible: How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text

By Alan T. Levenson

Book Overview

The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible explains how Jewish translators, commentators, and scholars made the Bible a keystone of Jewish life in Germany, Israel and America. In each site, a particular need-religion, nationalism, ethnicity-drove the enterprise of Bible study as scholars wrestled with the demands of the non-Jewish environment and their own indigenous traditions. Contrary to popular conceptions, the author argues that the modern period has been the golden age of Jewish Bible study.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442205172
• ISBN13: 9781442205178
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"