The Hebrew Bible Reborn

by Shavit, Yaacov

• ISBN13: 9783110191417
• ISBN10: 3110191415
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-15
• Publisher: De Gruyter

Summary

This work, the first of its kind, describes all the aspects of the Bible revolution in Jewish history in the last two hundred years, as well as the emergence of the new biblical culture. It describes the circumstances and processes that turned Holy Scripture into the Book of Books and into the history of the biblical period and of the Jewish people. It deals with the encounter of the Jews with modern biblical criticism, the archaeological research of the Ancient Near East, with contemporary archaeology, the Bible-Babel polemic at the start of the twentieth century, and the use of the bible as a a oeguide to lifea in education, culture and politics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The Biblical Revolution in Modern Jewish History and the Struggle over the Bible in the Nineteenth Century
"Back to the Bible": The Biblical Revolution in the Nineteenth Century	p. 17
Wellhausen and his School: The Jewish Response to Higher Criticism	p. 85
"Truth Shall Spring out of the Earth": The Initial Jewish Reaction to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East	p. 156
The War of The Tablets
The Babel-Bibel Controversy as a Typological Event	p. 195
Friedrich Delitzsch and a Second 'Tower of Babel'	p. 206
Delitzsch's Three Lectures on Babel and Bibel	p. 229
The Controversy in the German Arena: Theology vs. Science	p. 256
At War - Within and Without	p. 276
Contra Delitzsch: Revelation, Originality and Ethics	p. 305
From Noah to the Sabbath	p. 331
In Search of Jewish and Hebrew Bible Study
After Delitzsch: The Bible and Jewish Bible Study in Germany between the Two World Wars	p. 355
Bible Criticism Arrives in Eretz Israel: Struggle and Reception	p. 371
"Extra-academic" Bible Study and Bible Criticism	p. 399
Orthodox Bible Criticism in Eretz Israel	p. 423
The Bible as History and Biblical Archaeology: "Can Two Walk Together?" (Amos 3:3)	p. 435
The Well of the Bible: The Biblical Culture in the Jewish Society in Eretz Israel (1882-2005)
The National Bible vs. The Cultural Bible	p. 475
The Golden Age of Biblical Culture	p. 490
From Golden Age to Decline	p. 516
Afterword	p. 521
Appendix	p. 531
Selected Bibliography	p. 541
Index	p. 551
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