The making of the modern Jewish Bible
Subtitle: how scholars in Germany, Israel, and America transformed an ancient text
By: Alan T. Levenson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781442205161; 9781442205185
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish; Bible
Description: "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."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.