Jewish Concepts of Scripture

Jewish Concepts of Scripture
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9780814724606
ISBN-13 : 0814724604
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Book Synopsis Jewish Concepts of Scripture by : Benjamin D Sommer

Download or read book Jewish Concepts of Scripture written by Benjamin D Sommer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Jews think scripture is? How do the People of the Book conceive of the Book of Books? In what ways is it authoritative? Who has the right to interpret it? Is it divinely or humanly written? And have Jews always thought about the Bible in the same way? In seventeen cohesive and rigorously researched essays, this volume traces the way some of the most important Jewish thinkers throughout history have addressed these questions from the rabbinic era through the medieval Islamic world to modern Jewish scholarship. They address why different Jewish thinkers, writers, and communities have turned to the Bibleā€”and what they expect to get from it. Ultimately, argues editor Benjamin D. Sommer, in understanding the ways Jews construct scripture, we begin to understand the ways Jews construct themselves.


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