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Record Nr.

UNINA9910996694103321

Titolo

Experiencing the Hebrew Bible : Spotlights on History and Tradition / Alina L. Schittenhelm, Amy Fedeski, Kerstin Mayerhofer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paderborn, : Brill | Schöningh, 2025

ISBN

9783657796946

3657796940

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 pages)

Collana

Baron Lectures. Studies on the Jewish Experience ; 2

Soggetti

Judaism

translation

antiquity

jews

Jewish culture

Jewish identity

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Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Experiencing the Hebrew Bible: Introduction -- Part I Text -- The Many Faces of the Bible: The Pre-History of Our Modern Bibles -- Divergent Versions of Habakkuk 3: From the Desk of the Hebrew University Bible Project -- Ladino and Spanish Bibles: Different Traditions -- Textual History as Reception History: Rabbi Meir's Text of Isa 21:11 -- Part II Reception -- Memory, Orality and Textuality in the Reception of the Biblical Text in Rabbinic Literature -- Converts' Souls in the Zohar: A Reception History -- Examples of Medieval Judith Midrashim: The Reception of the Pre-Modern Niddah -- Part III History -- Strengthening the Faith of the Ex-Conversos: Karaites, Translation, and Biblical Exegesis in Northwest Europe -- A Profoundly Religious Expression: The Role of Scripture and Ritual in the American Campaign for Soviet Jewish Emigration, 1964-1974 -- The Discipline of Textual Criticism as Experienced in 1970-2020 -- Part IV Modern Culture -- The Gendering Garden: Narrative



Creations of Adam and Eve as Cisgender Prefiguration in Biblical, Rabbinic, and Contemporary Young Adult Literature -- Disturbed Depths: The Aquatic Otherness of the Leviathan in From Dust, A Flame -- Beyond Religious and Secular: Biblical Intertextuality in Modern Mizrahi Literature -- List of Contributors -- Back Cover.

Sommario/riassunto

Leading scholars from diverse fields explore the importance of the Hebrew Bible for Jewish history, culture, and identity. The Hebrew Bible has been and continues to be at the heart of Judaism. As this volume explores its significance throughout the ages, it focuses both on the textual history and on its lived experience. The articles deal with aspects of textual criticism, translation, the history of reception, and modern references to the Hebrew Bible. They span a historical period from antiquity to the present day. Leading scholars from various disciplines use diverse approaches to highlight the Hebrew Bible’s multifacetedness and its continuous importance for Jews around the world.