Making of the Modern Jewish Bible (eBook)

How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text

Alan T. Levenson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
262 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-0518-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Tracing its history from Moses Mendelssohn to today, Alan Levenson explores the factors that shaped what is the modern Jewish Bible and its centrality in Jewish life today. 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. Levenson argues that German Jews created a religious Bible, Israeli Jews a national Bible, and American Jews an ethnic one. In each site, scholars wrestled with the demands of the non-Jewish environment and their own indigenous traditions, trying to balance fidelity and independence from the commentaries of the rabbinic and medieval world.

Autor

Alan T. Levenson is the Schusterman/Josey Professor of Jewish Intellectual and Religious History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of several books, including Modern Jewish Thinkers: An Introduction, The Story of Joseph: A Journey of Jewish Interpretation, and Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism. Defenses of Jews & Judaism in Germany, 1871-1932.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter 1: Spinoza As Jewish Bible CriticPart I. The Emergence of Modern Jewish Bible Studies in GermanyIntroduction: Starting with GermanyChapter 2: Mendelssohn's Bible: The Ideal of Jewish Self-SufficiencyChapter 3: Samson Raphael Hirsch: The Chimera of Self-Explanatory ScriptureChapter 4: Benno Jacob and the Call for a "Jewish" Bible ScholarshipChapter 5: The Martin Buber-Franz Rosenzweig Bible: Culture or Religion?Part II. Zionism and the Creation of a National BibleIntroduction: The Bible in Modern IsraelChapter 6: Early Zionism and the Bible: Ahad Haam and His OpponentsChapter 7: The Bible As National Linchpin: David Ben Gurion and His OpponentsChapter 8: Nehama Leibowitz's Bible: Returning Tradition to the TextPart III. The Flowering of Jewish Bible Studies in North AmericaIntroduction: America and the Jewish BibleChapter 9: Finding A Jewish Voice: Nahum Sarna & Robert AlterChapter 10: Seeking An American Jewish BibleConclusion: Is There A "Jewish School" of Modern Bible Study?NotesSelective BibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.8.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Schlagworte: Literary Studies • World Literary Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-0518-0 / 1442205180
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-0518-5 / 9781442205185