The Closed Book : How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible /

"Judaism is often described as the religion of the book par excellence - a religious movement built around the study of and commentary on the Hebrew Bible and steeped in a culture of bookishness that evolved from an unrelenting focus on a canonical text. Standard works of modern scholarship rei...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wollenberg, Rebecca Scharbach (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bible. > Pentateuch.
Bible. > Old Testament.
Bible.
Bible > Canon.
Bible. > Pentateuch > Hermeneutics.
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish > History.
Rabbinical literature.
Hermeneutics.
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The People of the Book before the Book
  • A Makeshift Scripture: Tales of Biblical Loss, Reconstruction, and Forgery
  • A Book that Kills: Rabbinic Stories about Lethal Encounters with Biblical Text
  • A Neglected Text: Mistaken Readings, Bible Avoidance, and the Dangers of Reading as We Know It
  • A Spoken Scripture: Unlinking the Written from the Oral in Rabbinic Practices of Bible Reading
  • A Third Torah: Oral Torah, Written Torah, and the Embrace of a Spoken Scripture
  • A Closed Book: The Torah Scroll as the Body of Revelation
  • Concluding Remarks: From the Third Torah to God's Monograph.

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