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Isaiah 40-66 : translation and commentary.
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ISBN: 9780802826039 0802826032 Year: 2012 Publisher: Grand Rapids Eerdmans


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Les juifs et la bible.
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ISBN: 9782213627472 2213627479 Year: 2012 Publisher: S.l. Fayard

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Enlevez la Bible aux Juifs, ils ne seront plus juifs. Ne leur laissez que la Bible, seront-ils encore juifs ? Comme l’identité qu'elle est censée fonder, la Bible échappe à toute définition simple. Livre un ou bibliothèque disparate ? Texte ou objet ? Révélation divine ou mythe national ? Littérature ou code législatif ? Pour les Juifs, la Bible a été tout cela. À travers les rapports changeants qu'ils ont noués avec elle, ce sont leurs propres métamorphoses qui se donnent à lire.Ainsi que celles de leurs adversaires. Car la Bible a aussi été brandie contre les Juifs – par les Chrétiens – pour les convaincre de leur erreur et pour les convertir. Ni somme ni essai, ce livre est d'abord la libre exploration d'un imaginaire. Une fenêtre largement ouverte sur une tradition qui à la fois nous interroge et nous engage tous, aujourd'hui comme hier. Ici même comme sur les collines de Cisjordanie.Que nous soyons Juifs ou pas. Que nous croyions au Ciel ou que nous n'y croyions pas.


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Let us Go up to Zion: Essays in Honour of H. G. M. Williamson on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday
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ISSN: 00835889 ISBN: 9789004215986 9789004226586 9004226583 9004215980 1283542900 9786613855350 Year: 2012 Volume: v. 153 Publisher: Brill

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This volume honours Professor H. G. M. Williamson, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University through a collection of essays by colleagues and former students from across the globe. The various contributions intersect with the previous work of Professor Williamson, with special emphasis on the history of biblical research, study of the Hebrew language and Hebrew textual traditions, post-exilic historiography (Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah) and the prophets (especially Isaiah).

Studien zur Priesterschrift
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ISBN: 3110138670 3110883945 9783110138672 Year: 2012 Volume: 214 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,


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Textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible.
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ISBN: 9780800696641 0800696646 Year: 2012 Publisher: Minneapolis Fortress

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"Since its initial publication, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible has established itself as the indispensable authoritative textbook and reference on the subject. In this thoroughly revised third edition, Emanuel Tov has incorporated the insights of the last ten years of scholarship, including new perspectives on the biblical texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls, all of which have now been published. Here are expanded discussions of the contribution of textual criticism to biblical exegesis and of the role of scribes in the transmission of the text. The introduction and references throughout the book have been thoroughly revised with the beginning student of textual criticism in mind" -- Publisher description.


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Jewish concepts of Scripture
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ISBN: 0814724795 0814724604 9780814724606 9780814724798 0814740626 9780814740620 9780814740637 0814740634 9780814760024 0814760023 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York

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What do Jews think scripture is? How do the People of the Book conceive of the Book of Books? In what ways is it authoritative? Who has the right to interpret it? Is it divinely or humanly written? And have Jews always thought about the Bible in the same way? In seventeen cohesive and rigorously researched essays, this volume traces the way some of the most important Jewish thinkers throughout history have addressed these questions from the rabbinic era through the medieval Islamic world to modern Jewish scholarship. They address why different Jewish thinkers, writers, and communities have turned to the Bible—and what they expect to get from it. Ultimately, argues editor Benjamin D. Sommer, in understanding the ways Jews construct scripture, we begin to understand the ways Jews construct themselves.


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From Gods to God : how the Bible debunked, suppressed, or changed ancient myths & legends
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ISBN: 1283687739 0827611447 9780827611443 0827609086 9780827609082 9781283687737 Year: 2012 Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society,

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The ancient Israelites believed things that the writers of the Bible wanted them to forget: myths and legends from a pre-biblical world that the new monotheist order needed to bury, hide, or reinterpret. Ancient Israel was rich in such literary traditions before the Bible reached the final form that we have today. These traditions were not lost but continued, passed down through the ages. Many managed to reach us in post-biblical sources: rabbinic literature, Jewish Hellenistic writings, the writings of the Dead Sea sect, the Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and other ancient


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Suckling at my mother's breasts : the image of a nursing God in Jewish mysticism
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ISBN: 1461917980 143844382X 9781461917984 9781438443829 9781438443812 1438443811 Year: 2012 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,


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In God's shadow : politics in the Hebrew Bible
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ISBN: 1280571330 9786613600936 0300182511 9780300182514 9780300180442 0300180446 9781280571336 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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In this eagerly awaited book, political theorist Michael Walzer reports his findings after decades of reading and thinking about the politics of the Hebrew Bible. Attentive to nuance while engagingly straightforward, Walzer examines the commentary of the ancient biblical writers and discusses the implications for such urgent modern topics as the nature of political society, hierarchy and justice, the use of political power, the justification for and rules of warfare, and the responsibilities of clerical figures, monarchs, and their subjects. Because there are many biblical writers, and because they represent different political views, pluralism is a central feature of biblical politics, Walzer observes. Yet pluralism is never explicitly defended in the Bible-indeed it couldn't be defended since God's word is one. There is, however, an anti-political teaching which recurs in biblical texts: if you have faith in God, you have no need for particular political institutions or prudent political leaders or deliberative assemblies or loyal citizens. And, Walzer finds a strong moral teaching common to the Bible's authors. He identifies God's decree for ethics and investigates its implications for just policymaking in our own times.


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Jews and words
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ISBN: 1283742292 0300156774 9780300156775 9780300156478 0300156472 9781283742290 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, father and daughter tell the tales behind Judaism's most enduring names, adages, disputes, texts, and quips. These words, they argue, compose the chain connecting Abraham with the Jews of every subsequent generation. Framing the discussion within such topics as continuity, women, timelessness, and individualism, Oz and Oz-Salzberger deftly engage Jewish personalities across the ages, from the unnamed, possibly female author of the Song of Songs through obscure Talmudists to contemporary writers. They suggest that Jewish continuity, even Jewish uniqueness, depends not on central places, monuments, heroic personalities, or rituals but rather on written words and an ongoing debate between the generations. Full of learning, lyricism, and humor, Jews and Words offers an extraordinary tour of the words at the heart of Jewish culture and extends a hand to the reader, any reader, to join the conversation.

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