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Essential Torah

Author : George Robinson
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805241868
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Essential Torah written by George Robinson and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are studying the Bible for the first time or you're simply curious about its history and contents, you will find everything you need in this "accessible, well-written handbook to Jewish belief as set forth in the Torah" (The Jerusalem Post). George Robinson, author of the acclaimed Essential Judaism, begins by recounting the various theories of the origins of the Torah and goes on to explain its importance as the core element in Jewish belief and practice. He discusses the basics of Jewish theology and Jewish history as they are derived from the Torah, and he outlines how the Dead Sea Scrolls and other archaeological discoveries have enhanced our understanding of the Bible. He introduces us to the vast literature of biblical commentary, chronicles the evolution of the Torah’s place in the synagogue service, offers an illuminating discussion of women and the Bible, and provides a study guide as a companion for individual or group Bible study. In the book’s centerpiece, Robinson summarizes all fifty-four portions that make up the Torah and gives us a brilliant distillation of two thousand years of biblical commentaries—from the rabbis of the Mishnah and the Talmud to medieval commentators such as Rashi, Maimonides, and ibn Ezra to contemporary scholars such as Nahum Sarna, Nechama Leibowitz, Robert Alter, and Everett Fox. This extraordinary volume—which includes a listing of the Torah reading cycles, a Bible time line, glossaries of terms and biblical commentators, and a bibliography—will stand as the essential sourcebook on the Torah for years to come.

Scribal Secrets

Author : James S. Diamond
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532647999
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Scribal Secrets written by James S. Diamond and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text of the Torah includes not only its words, but also various atypical scribal features. Prime among these are the dots over certain letters, various letters written either large or small, and the exceedingly odd placement of two inverted Hebrew letters surrounding one passage. What are these features doing there? How old are they? Do they carry meaning? How have they been interpreted over the years? James Diamond brings the reader on the journey through the Torah text in search of a response to these questions.

Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible

Author : Karel van der Toorn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674032543
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible by : Karel van der Toorn

Download or read book Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible written by Karel van der Toorn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We think of the Hebrew Bible as the Book--and yet it was produced by a largely nonliterate culture in which writing, editing, copying, interpretation, and public reading were the work of a professional elite. The scribes of ancient Israel are indeed the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and in this book Karel van der Toorn tells their story for the first time. His book considers the Bible in very specific historical terms, as the output of the scribal workshop of the Second Temple active in the period 500-200 BCE. Drawing comparisons with the scribal practices of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, van der Toorn clearly details the methods, the assumptions, and the material means of production that gave rise to biblical texts; then he brings his observations to bear on two important texts, Deuteronomy and Jeremiah. Traditionally seen as the copycats of antiquity, the scribes emerge here as the literate elite who held the key to the production as well as the transmission of texts. Van der Toorn's account of scribal culture opens a new perspective on the origins of the Hebrew Bible, revealing how the individual books of the Bible and the authors associated with them were products of the social and intellectual world of the scribes. By taking us inside that world, this book yields a new and arresting appreciation of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Scribes and Schools

Author : Philip R. Davies
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664227289
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Scribes and Schools written by Philip R. Davies and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scribes and Schools is an examination of the processes which led to the canonization of the Hebrew Bible. Philip Davies sheds light on the social reasons for the development of the canon and in so doing presents a clear picture of how the Bible came into being. Volumes in the Library of Ancient Israel draw on multiple disciplines--such as archaeology, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and literary criticism--to illuminate the everyday realities and social subtleties these ancient cultures experienced. This series employs sophisticated methods resulting in original contributions that depict the reality of the people behind the Hebrew Bible and interprets these insights for a wide variety of readers.

The Scribes of the Torah

Author : Konrad Schmid
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1628374322
Total Pages : 955 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book The Scribes of the Torah written by Konrad Schmid and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised view of the Pentateuch with consequences for the broader literary history of the Bible This collection of thirty-one studies on the Pentateuch represents more than twenty years of Konrad Schmid’s research and publications advocating for a new view of the Pentateuch’s formation. Schmid’s essays present the case for a Persian period Priestly document that provided a basic narrative thread to the Torah, which included separate, pre-Priestly components of narratives in Genesis and the Moses story. Schmid’s open discussion includes evidence from various fields, such as literary history, comparative cultural history, historical linguistics, epigraphy, and archaeology. The essays are divided into eight sections usefully structured around the themes of the Pentateuch in the Enneateuch, the history of scholarship, the formation of the Torah, Genesis, the Moses story, the Priestly document, legal texts, and the Pentateuch in the history of ancient Israel’s religion.

Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism

Author : Annette Yoshiko Reed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052111943X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism written by Annette Yoshiko Reed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new explanation of the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology, drawing on non-canonical writings and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.

A Visual Walk Through Genesis

Author : Stephen M. Miller
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736965971
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book A Visual Walk Through Genesis written by Stephen M. Miller and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Objective Look at Some of the Bible's Strangest Stories Genesis offers helpful answers to the biggest questions in life—Why are we here? What is God like? Why so much evil and pain? But today's readers often get tripped up by the ancient writing style and wonder... Did Moses really write Genesis? Many of the reports seem so odd—are they scientifically accurate? Does that matter? How does Genesis relate to other ancient accounts of creation, the origin of evil, and the great flood? Stephen M. Miller—a seminary-educated news journalist—presents viewpoints from a wide range of Christian Bible experts, along with gorgeous graphics and a touch of dry humor. Whether you're a Bible newbie or a longtime reader, this visual stroll through the first book of the Bible will help you bridge the gap between then and now.

Gentlemen Bootleggers

Author : Bryce Bauer
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613748485
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Gentlemen Bootleggers written by Bryce Bauer and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Prohibition, while Al Capone was rising to worldwide prominence as Public Enemy Number One, the townspeople of Templeton, Iowa—population just 418—were busy with a bootlegging empire of their own. Led by the whip-smart and gregarious Joe Irlbeck, an outfit of farmers, small merchants, and even the church Monsignor together created a whiskey so excellent it was ordered by name: “Templeton rye.” However, a prohibition agent from the adjacent county named Benjamin Franklin Wilson was ardent in his fight against alcohol, and he chased Irlbeck for over a decade. But Irlbeck was not Capone, and Templeton would not be ruled by violence like Chicago. Gentlemen Bootleggers tells a never-before-told tale of ingenuity, bootstrapping, and perseverance, showcasing a group of criminals who embraced the American ideals of self-reliance, dynamism, and democratic justice. It relies on previously classified Prohibition Bureau investigation files, federal court case files, extensive newspaper archive research, and a recently disclosed interview with kingpin Joe Irlbeck. Unlike other Prohibition-era tales of big-city gangsters, it provides an important reminder that bootlegging wasn’t only about glory and riches, but could be in the service of a higher goal: producing the best whiskey money could buy. Bryce T. Bauer is a Hearst Award-winning journalist who has written for Saveur, the Daily Iowan, the Cedar Rapids Gazette, and other publications. He is coproducing and cowriting West Iowa Whiskey Cookers, a documentary on Prohibition-era bootlegging. He lives in New York City.

Scribes and Scribalism

Author : Mark Leuchter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567696170
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Scribes and Scribalism written by Mark Leuchter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a concentrated examination of the varied roles of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel and Judah, shedding light on the social world of the Hebrew Bible. Divided into discussion of three key aspects, the book begins by assessing praxis and materiality, looking at the tools and materials used by scribes, where they came from and how they worked in specific contexts. The contributors then move to observe the power and status of scribal cultures, and how scribes functioned within their broader social world. Finally, the volume offers perspectives that examine ideological issues at play in both antiquity and the modern context(s) of biblical scholarship. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that no text is produced in a void, and no writer functions without a network of resources.

The Complete Visual Bible

Author : Stephen M. Miller
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781602606883
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Visual Bible written by Stephen M. Miller and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents illustrated summaries, historical background, and maps about stories and events found in both the Old and New Testament.

Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus

Author : Allan Millard
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567083487
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus written by Allan Millard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus never wrote a book. Most scholars assume that information about Jesus was preserved only orally up until the writing of the Gospels, allowing ample time for the stories of Jesus to grow and diversify. Alan Millard here argues that written reports about Jesus could have been made during his lifetime and that some among his audiences and followers may very well have kept notes, first-hand documents that the Evangelists could weave into their narratives.

Greek in Jewish Palestine

Author : Saul Lieberman
Publisher : JTS Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek in Jewish Palestine written by Saul Lieberman and published by JTS Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these two books, now reprinted in one volume, master Talmudist and scholar of the Greco-Roman world, the late Professor Saul Lieberman, elucidates words, texts, customs and practices in either rabbinic or classical literature, often buy reference to passages in the other. In Greek in Jewish Palestine, he demonstrates that "almost ever foreign word and phrase have their raison d'etre in rabbinic literature" and that "all Greek phrases in rabbinic literature are quotations." Hellenism in Jewish Palestine is "an inquiry into the spirit of many rabbinic observations and investigations of the facts, insicents, opinions, notions and beliefs to which the Rabbis allude in their statements."

The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy

Author : Joseph R. Hacker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220509X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy written by Joseph R. Hacker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of printing had major effects on culture and society in the early modern period, and the presence of this new technology—and the relatively rapid embrace of it among early modern Jews—certainly had an effect on many aspects of Jewish culture. One major change that print seems to have brought to the Jewish communities of Christian Europe, particularly in Italy, was greater interaction between Jews and Christians in the production and dissemination of books. Starting in the early sixteenth century, the locus of production for Jewish books in many places in Italy was in Christian-owned print shops, with Jews and Christians collaborating on the editorial and technical processes of book production. As this Jewish-Christian collaboration often took place under conditions of control by Christians (for example, the involvement of Christian typesetters and printers, expurgation and censorship of Hebrew texts, and state control of Hebrew printing), its study opens up an important set of questions about the role that Christians played in shaping Jewish culture. Presenting new research by an international group of scholars, this book represents a step toward a fuller understanding of Jewish book history. Individual essays focus on a range of issues related to the production and dissemination of Hebrew books as well as their audiences. Topics include the activities of scribes and printers, the creation of new types of literature and the transformation of canonical works in the era of print, the external and internal censorship of Hebrew books, and the reading interests of Jews. An introduction summarizes the state of scholarship in the field and offers an overview of the transition from manuscript to print in this period.

The Complete Guide to Bible Prophecy

Author : Stephen M. Miller
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781624162237
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Guide to Bible Prophecy written by Stephen M. Miller and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly-illustrated guide explains all aspects of biblical prophecies about the: Jewish nation, Messiah, end of the world and world to come. A balanced and easy-to-read survey of mysterious biblical passages and their various interpretations, The Complete Guide to Bible Prophecy also features beautiful illustrations, informative maps and helpful charts and graphics.

Fixing God's Torah

Author : B. Barry Levy
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019514113X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Fixing God's Torah written by B. Barry Levy and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars and obervant Jews assume that rabbinic Judaism includes a dogmatic commitment to the notion that the Bible text, particularly the Torah text, is letter perfect. This study offers a very different picture of the textual reality.

Sefer Tagin Fragments from the Cairo Genizah

Author : Marc Michaels
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004426361
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Sefer Tagin Fragments from the Cairo Genizah written by Marc Michaels and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sefer Tagin Fragments from the Cairo Genizah, Marc Michaels recreates fragments from the scribal manual concerning decorative tagin and 'strange' letters found in some Sifrey Torah.

What on Earth Is God Doing?

Author : Renald Showers
Publisher : Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry
ISBN 13 : 9780915540808
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book What on Earth Is God Doing? written by Renald Showers and published by Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk from creation to eternity in a way guaranteed to change your view of the world. You'll finally understand the war Satan is waging against God and how that conflict has affected history, including the persecution of Jewish people and Christians.