Back To The Sources
Subtitle: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: January 2, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780671605964
Subjects: Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts; Judaism; Sources; Reference; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Religion; Judaism - Sacred Writings; Religion / Judaism / General; History
First sentence: We are perhaps used to thinking of the Hebrew Bible, together with the poems of Homer and Hesiod, as the literature of the archaic world-without considering that these formed only a fraction of the written discourse of ancient times.