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Jewish Concepts of Scripture

Name: Jewish Concepts of Scripture
Brand: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780814740620

A Comparative Introduction

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By Benjamin D. Sommer
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 347

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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 Bible-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.

Acknowledgments 1 IntroductionBenjamin D. Sommer 2 Concepts of Scripture in the Synagogue Service Elsie Stern 3 Concepts of Scripture in Rabbinic JudaismSteven D. Fraade 4 Concepts of Scripture in the Schools of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael Azzan Yadin-Israel 5 Concepts of Scriptural Language in Midrash Benjamin D. Sommer 6 Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World Meira Polliack 7 Concepts of Scripture in the School of Rashi Robert A. Harris 8 Concepts of Scripture in Maimonides James A. Diamond 9 Concepts of Scripture in Nahmanides Aaron W. Hughes 10 Concepts of Scripture in Jewish Mysticism Moshe Idel 11 Concepts of Scripture in Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig Jonathan Cohen 12 The Pentateuch as Scripture and the Challenge of Biblical CriticismBaruch J. Schwartz 13 Concepts of Scripture in Yehezkel KaufmannJob Y. Jindo 14 Concepts of Scripture in Moshe GreenbergMarc Zvi Brettler 15 Concepts of Scripture in Mordechai Breuer Shalom Carmy 16 Scripture and Modern Israeli Literature Yael S. Feldman 17 Scripture and Israeli Secular CultureYair ZakovitchGlossary About the Contributors Index

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