The Voice, the Word, the Books : The Sacred Scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims /
"Jews, Christians, and Muslims all believe that their Scriptures preserve God's words to humanity, and that those words were spoken uniquely to them. In The Voice, the Word, the Books, F.E. Peters leads readers on an extraordinary journey through centuries of written tradition to uncover t...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the voice from Sinai
- Sacred words, sacred book
- Book shaping: the making of a canon
- Reciters, rhapsodes, and scribes: how the Bible reached us
- The reporters: the good news and how we got it
- The poet in performance: the composition of the Quran
- The book in mortal hands
- In other words
- Picturing the Word
- Giving voice to the Word
- Epilogue: three books, side by side.