The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible

How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Judaism, Sacred Writings, History
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Author: Alan T. Levenson ISBN: 9781442205185
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Publication: August 16, 2011
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Language: English
Author: Alan T. Levenson
ISBN: 9781442205185
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication: August 16, 2011
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English

Tracing its history from Moses Mendelssohn to today, Alan Levenson explores the factors that shaped what is the modern Jewish Bible and its centrality in Jewish life today. 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. Levenson argues that German Jews created a religious Bible, Israeli Jews a national Bible, and American Jews an ethnic one. In each site, scholars wrestled with the demands of the non-Jewish environment and their own indigenous traditions, trying to balance fidelity and independence from the commentaries of the rabbinic and medieval world.

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Tracing its history from Moses Mendelssohn to today, Alan Levenson explores the factors that shaped what is the modern Jewish Bible and its centrality in Jewish life today. 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. Levenson argues that German Jews created a religious Bible, Israeli Jews a national Bible, and American Jews an ethnic one. In each site, scholars wrestled with the demands of the non-Jewish environment and their own indigenous traditions, trying to balance fidelity and independence from the commentaries of the rabbinic and medieval world.

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