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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Detaylı Bibliyografya
Yazar: Wollenberg, Rebecca Scharbach (Yazar)
Materyal Türü: Licensed eBooks
Dil:İngilizce
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Online Erişim:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv303wbzg
İçindekiler:
  • 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.