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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wollenberg, Rebecca Scharbach (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv303wbzg