Review of Stern, The Jewish Bible: A Material History

THE JEWISH REVIEW OF BOOKS: Black Fire on White Fire (Adam Kirsch).

The Jewish Bible: A Material History
by David Stern
University of Washington Press, 320 pp., $50 [2017]

Excerpt:

In The Jewish Bible, Stern masterfully synthesizes this scholarship, offering a chronological history of Jewish sacred books from Qumran to the JPS Tanakh. For if the Sefer Torah itself hasn’t changed, other ways Jews encounter their scripture definitely have. Indeed, as Stern shows, the Jewish book serves as a lens through which we can study central themes of Jewish history and thought.

Adam Kirsh also has an ongoing Daf Yomi column at Tablet Magazine.

HT AJR.

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