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How to read the Bible /
Annotation
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Philadelphia, PA :
Jewish Publication Society,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Reading as a Jew and as a scholar
- What is the Bible, anyway?
- The art of reading the Bible
- A brief history of Israel
- With scissors and paste : the sources of Genesis
- Creation vs. creationism : Genesis 1-3 as myth
- The ancestors as heroes
- Biblical law : codes and collections
- Incense is offensive to me : the cult in ancient Israel
- "In the fortieth year-- Moses addressed the Israelites : Deuteronomy
- "The walls came tumbling down" : reading Joshua
- "May my lord King David live forever" : royal ideology in Samuel and Judges
- "For Israel tore away from the house of David" : reading Kings
- Revisionist history : reading Chronicles
- Introduction to prophecy
- "Let justice well up like water" : reading Amos
- "They shall beat their swords into plowshares" : reading (first) Isaiah
- "I will make this house like Shiloh" : reading Jeremiah
- "I will be for them a mini-temple" : reading Ezekiel
- "Comfort, oh comfort my people" : the exile and beyond
- "Those that sleep in the dust-- will awake" : Zechariah, apocalyptic literature, and Daniel
- Prayer of many hearts : reading Psalms
- "Acquire wisdom" : reading Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
- "Being but dust and ashes" : reading Job
- "Drink deep of love!" : reading Song of Songs
- "Why are you so kind-- when I am a foreigner?" : reading Ruth vs. Esther
- The creation of the Bible.