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

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.

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages:

272

Date Published:

2016-09-14