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9780827607750

How to Read the Bible

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  • ISBN13:

    9780827607750

  • ISBN10:

    082760775X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-10-15
  • Publisher: Jewish Pubn Society

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Summary

This book is the first "Jewishly sensitive" introduction to the historical-critical method of interpreting the Bible. Unlike other such introductory texts, the Bible that this book speaks about is the Jewish one-with the three-part Tanakh arrangement, the sequence of books found in modern printed Hebrew editions, and the chapter and verse enumerations used in most modern Jewish versions. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Marc Zvi Brettler is Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Literature and chair of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Abbreviations xiii
Reading as a Jew and as a Scholar
1(6)
What Is the Bible, Anyway?
7(6)
The Art of Reading the Bible
13(6)
A Brief History of Israel
19(10)
With Scissors and Paste: The Sources of Genesis
29(8)
Creation vs. Creationism: Genesis 1-3 as Myth
37(12)
The Ancestors as Heroes
49(12)
Biblical Law: Codes and Collections
61(12)
Incense Is Offensive to Me: The Cult in Ancient Israel
73(12)
``In the Fortieth Year . . . Moses Addressed the Israelites'': Deuteronomy
85(10)
``The Walls Came Tumbling Down'': Reading Joshua
95(12)
``May My Lord King David Live Forever'': Royal Ideology in Samuel and Judges
107(10)
``For Israel Tore Away from the House of David'': Reading Kings
117(12)
Revisionist History: Reading Chronicles
129(8)
Introduction to Prophecy
137(12)
``Let Justice Well Up like Water'': Reading Amos
149(12)
``They Shall Beat Their Swords into Plowshares'': Reading (First) Isaiah
161(12)
``I Will Make This House like Shiloh'': Reading Jeremiah
173(12)
``I Will Be for Them a Mini-Temple'': Reading Ezekiel
185(14)
``Comfort, Oh Comfort My People'': The Exile and Beyond
199(10)
``Those That Sleep in the Dust . . . Will Awake'': Zechariah, Apocalyptic Literature, and Daniel
209(10)
Prayer of Many Hearts: Reading Psalms
219(12)
``Acquire Wisdom'': Reading Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
231(12)
``Being But Dust and Ashes'': Reading Job
243(14)
``Drink Deep of Love!'': Reading Song of Songs
257(10)
``Why Are You So Kind . . . When I Am a Foreigner?'': Reading Ruth vs. Esther
267(6)
The Creation of the Bible
273(6)
Afterword: Reading the Bible as a Committed Jew 279(6)
Notes 285(54)
Sources Cited 339(22)
Index of Subjects 361(11)
Index of Biblical Passages and Other References 372

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