JPS guide
Subtitle: the Jewish Bible.
Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780827608511
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Introductions
Description: This guide to the Jewish Bible explains what the Jewish Bible is, how it developed, its structure and differences between it and Christian Bibles. It also includes short histories of Bible translations and commentaries, a guide to characters and places, plus an introduction to Biblical poetry, storytelling, law and Bible study.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is the Bible?; title: How the Bible became "the Bible"; title: The origins of the Hebrew Bible text; title: The Torah scroll; title: Public reading of the Torah; title: A short history of Bible translations; title: The matter of gender in the JPS Torah translation; title: Storytelling in the Bible; title: Biblical law; title: Biblical poetry; title: An introduction to the books of the Prophets; title: Wisdom literature; title: Methods of Bible study; title: Commentaries on the Bible; title: Midrash; title: Summaries of the books of the Bible; title: Glossary of Biblical words and terms; title: Family trees; title: Weights and measures in the Bible; title: Timeline of the Bible; title: Chronology of the prophets; title: Chronology of the monarchies; title: Familiar quotations from the Bible.