Making the Bible Modern
Subtitle: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: December 18, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801436673
Subjects: Education; Jewish studies; Religious instruction; United States - 20th Century; 20th century; History - General History; United States - 20th Century (1900-1945); Children's Literature - General; Judaism - History; Jewish religious education of children; History: American; USA; Jewish - General; Bible stories, English; Judaism - General; Study and teaching (Elementary); United States; Bible; Cultural assimilation; History; Jewish religious education of; Jews
First sentence: As experienced within traditional Jewish culture, the Bible was both a fixed, unchangeable sacred object, subject to elaborate practices regulating its production and restricting access and touch, and at the same time a text open to interpretation and handled with intimacyread by young and old, at home, school, and synagogue.