Title: People of the book
First published: 1997
Description: People of the Book offers the best introduction available to Jewish hermeneutics, a book capable of conveying the importance of the tradition to a wide audience of both academic and general readers. Halbertal provides a panoramic survey of Jewish attitudes toward Scripture, provocatively organized around problems of normative and formative authority, with an emphasis on the changing status and functions of Mishnah, Talmud, and Kabbalah.
Subjects: Bible, Canon, Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish, 11.40 Old Testament: general, Jodendom, Oude Testament, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., o. t., Bible, canon, Judaism
LC classification: BS1186 .H23 1997