Yaacov Shavit; Mordechai Eran's The Hebrew Bible Reborn: From Holy Scripture to the Book of PDF

By Yaacov Shavit; Mordechai Eran

ISBN-10: 3110191415

ISBN-13: 9783110191417

This paintings, the 1st of its variety, describes the entire features of the Bible revolution in Jewish background within the final 200 years, in addition to the emergence of the hot biblical tradition. It describes the conditions and strategies that became Holy Scripture into the booklet of Books and into the background of the biblical interval and of the folks the Jewish humans. It offers with the come upon of the Jews with smooth biblical feedback and the archaeological learn of the traditional close to East and with modern archaeology. the center part discusses the huge involvement of knowledgeable Jews within the Bible-Babel polemic in the beginning of the 20 th century, which it treats as a typological occasion. The final part describes at size a variety of facets of the most important prestige assigned to the Bible within the new Jewish tradition in Europe, and especially in glossy Jewish Palestine, as a "guide to lifestyles" in schooling, tradition and politics, in addition to a part of the try to create a brand new Jewish guy, and as a resource of proposal for varied inventive arts.

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Studies in the History of Eretz Yisrael, presented to Yehudah Ben Porat, Jerusalem, 2003, pp. 451–493 (Hebrew). On the encounter between the “Orientalist” topoi and the images of Eretz Israel as the “land of the Bible,” see recently: Eitan Bar-Yosef, The Holy Land in English Culture, 1799–1917, Oxford, 2005. Emanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Bible, pp. 17–20. A. Agus, French Enlightenment and the Rabbinic Tradition, Frankfurt am Main, 1970; J. K. S. Reed, The Authority of Scripture: A Study of the Reformation and Post-Reformation Understanding of the Bible, London, 1957; H.

In these centuries, the Bible was given a central and formative status in English society. 16 The history of the various translations of the Bible (both the Old and the New Testaments) and the commentaries appended to them reflect this status and demonstrate the various ways in which it was understood and made topical. –1536) of the Pentateuch and the Book of 14 15 16 Michelet (1798–1874), the liberal historian, who for a time served as Toussenel’s secretary, wrote in a similar vein, in his book Bible de l’humanité (1866).

The invention of printing made possible: “Putting Bibles in Everyman’s hand…placing the Bible in the hands of every God-fearing householder”, in E. L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution, pp. 366–367, 425. Between 1457–1500, a hundred editions of the Bible in English translation were published. See: Owen Chadwick, The Reformation, p. 24. Norton describes the influence of printing on the status of the Bible as a transition from lore to text. , p. , pp. 476–479. In this context, two matters are important: 1.

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