The Jews and the Bible

by Attias, Jean-Christophe

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Title Statements

Full title :The Jews and the Bible / Jean-Christophe Attias ; translated by Patrick Camiller.

Summary

Despite its deceptively simple title, this book ponders the thorny issue of the place of the Bible in Jewish religion and culture. By thoroughly examining the complex link that the Jews have formed with the Bible, Jewish scholar Jean-Christophe Attias raises the uncomfortable question of whether it is still relevant for them. The Jews and the Bible reveals how the Jews define themselves in various times and place with the Bible, without the Bible, and against the Bible. Is it divine revelation or national myth? Literature or legislative code? One book or a disparate literary? Text or object? For the Jews, over the past two thousand years or more, the Bible has been all that and much more, telling a fascinating story and raising provocative philosophical and ethical questions. The Bible is indeed an elusive book, so Attias explores the fundamental discrepancy between what we think the Bible tells us about Judaism and what Judaism actually tells us about the Bible. With passion and intellect, Attias informs and enlightens the reader, never shying from the difficult questions, ultimately asking: In our post-genocide and post-Zionist culture, can the Bible be saved? -- from back cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Stanford University Press
Place of Publication:Stanford, California
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

Notes

"Originally published in French in 2012 under the title Les juifs et la Bible."

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 235 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780804789073, 080478907X, 9780804793193, 0804793190
oclc:ocn896598084
LC Classification:BS1186
Dewey Decimal:221.6088/296

An elusive book? -- A strangely plural singular -- Bibles, canons, and languages -- Prophets, texts, and books -- Bible object, Bible in pieces -- The Bible in boxes -- The Bible in scrolls -- The Bible in person -- The Bible in pieces -- The improbable locus of an identity -- The Bible and Jewishness -- The Greeks, the Arabs, and us -- Facing the Christians : their scriptures and ours -- The Karaite temptation : scripture alone? -- Reading the Bible at the risk of heresy -- Children, women, and the people -- The scholars' Bible -- The immense ocean of commentaries -- The Bible of the moderns -- The critical age, or the Bible humiliated -- Toward a postcritical age, or the Bible redeemed -- The political age, or the Bible manifesto.

Subjects

11.21 Jewish religious literature Bibel Bible Bible., Ancien Testament Bible., Old Testament History Jews -- Identity Judaism -- Doctrines Judaïsme -- Doctrines Judentum Juifs -- Identité