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17%OFFMoshe Halbertal - People of the Book - 9780674661127 - V9780674661127
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People of the Book

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Description for People of the Book Paperback. Scripture is at the centre of many religions. This book looks at the function, development and implications of the centrality of text upon the Jewish community. It forms an introduction to Jewish hermeneutics, exploring shifts from the Bible to the Torah and biblical religion to rabbinic Judaism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; CFP; HRCG; HRJ; HRLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 328.

While Scripture is at the center of many religions, among them Islam and Christianity, this book inquires into the function, development, and implications of the centrality of text upon the Jewish community, and by extension on the larger question of canonization and the text-centered community. It is a commonplace to note how the landless and scattered Jewish communities have, from the time of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. until the founding of modern Israel in 1948, cleaved to the text and derived their identity from it. But the story is far more complex. The shift ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674661127
SKU
V9780674661127
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About Moshe Halbertal
Moshe Halbertal teaches Jewish Thought and Philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Reviews for People of the Book
Halbertal offers a sophisticated analysis of the development of Jewish text-centered cultures. His work is an important study for the history of interpretation within Judaism, though its significance as a model of how text-centered religions think extends even beyond Judaism...The work would make an excellent classroom introduction to the nature of the role that canonization plays in religions whose experience ... Read more

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