Greenspahn, Judaism and Its Bible (JPS)

NEW BOOK FROM THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY:

Judaism and Its Bible
A People and Their Book

Frederick E. Greenspahn

294 pages
Index

Paperback
August 2023
978-0-8276-1510-6
$29.95

eBook (EPUB)
August 2023
978-0-8276-1904-3
$29.95

eBook (PDF)
August 2023
978-0-8276-1905-0
$29.95

About the Book

Judaism and Its Bible explores the profoundly deep and complex relationship between Jews, Judaism, and the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew Bible has been ubiquitous in Jewish life and thought: Jews read it, interpret it, and debate it. They translate the Bible even as they deem those translations inadequate, and they cite the Bible as the basis for observances that are not even mentioned in it. Jews quote the Bible as authority for their tradition’s preservation and innovation, as both the word of God and the language of humans, and as justification for both pro- and anti-rabbinic movements. Fascinating and comprehensive, Judaism and Its Bible describes the extraordinary two-and-a-half-millennia journey of a people and its book that has changed the world.

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