The closed book : how the Rabbis taught the Jews (not) to read the Bible /
"Judaism is often described as the religion of the book par excellence - a religious movement built around the study of and commentary on the Hebrew Bible and steeped in a culture of bookishness that evolved from an unrelenting focus on a canonical text. Standard works of modern scholarship rei...
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| Idioma: | inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2023]
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv303wbzg |
Table of Contents:
- The people of the book before the book
- A makeshift scripture : tales of biblical loss, reconstruction, and forgery
- A book that kills : rabbinic stories about lethal encounters with biblical text
- A neglected text : mistaken readings, bible avoidance, and the dangers of reading as we know it
- A spoken scripture : unlinking the written from the oral in rabbinic practices of bible reading
- A third Torah : oral Torah, written Torah, and the embrace of a spoken scripture
- A closed book : the Torah scroll as the body of revelation
- Concluding remarks: From the third Torah to God's monograph.