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How to Read the Bible

by Marc Zvi Brettler

  • Hardback
  • 400 pages
  • Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.7 cm

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Shedding new light on the Bible by reading it as it was meant in the time and place in which it was written In his new book, master Bible scholar and teacher Marc Brettler argues that today's contemporary readers can only understand the ancient Hebrew scripture by knowing more about the culture that produced it. And so Brettler unpacks the literary conventions, ideological assumptions, and historical conditions that inform the biblical text and demonstrates how modern critical scholarship and archaeological discoveries shed light on this fascinating and complex literature. Brettler surveys representative biblical texts from different genres to illustrate how modern scholars have taught us to "read" these texts. Using the "historical-critical method" long popular in academia, he guides us in reading the Bible as it was read in the biblical period, independent of later religious norms and interpretive traditions. Understanding the Bible this way lets us appreciate it as an interesting text that speaks in multiple voices on profound issues. This book is the first "Jewishly sensitive" introduction to the historical-critical method.Unlike other such introductory texts, the Bible that this book speaks about is the Jewish one - with the three-part TaNaKH arrangement, the sequence of books found in modern printed Hebrew editions, and the chapter and verse enumerations used in most modern Jewish versions of the Bible. In an afterword, the author discusses how the historical-critical method can help contemporary Jews relate to the Bible as a religious text in a more meaningful way.
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  • Author

    Marc Zvi Brettler

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Jewish Publication Society

  • Published

    October 2005

  • Weight

    663g

  • Page Count

    400

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780827607750

  • ISBN-10

    082760775X

  • Eden Code

    1196375

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