The Hebrew Bible Reborn: From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism

Yaacov Shavit; Mordechai Eran

Published by De Gruyter 2007

The Hebrew Bible Reborn

From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books. A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism

Yaacov Shavit and Mordechai Eran
Translated by: Chaya Naor

Volume 38 in the series Studia Judaica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110200935

Overview
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About this book

This work, the first of its kind, describes all the aspects of the Bible revolution in Jewish history in the last two hundred years, as well as the emergence of the new biblical culture.

It describes the circumstances and processes that turned Holy Scripture into the Book of Books and into the history of the biblical period and of the people – the Jewish people. It deals with the encounter of the Jews with modern biblical criticism and the archaeological research of the Ancient Near East and with contemporary archaeology.

The middle section discusses the extensive involvement of educated Jews in the Bible-Babel polemic at the start of the twentieth century, which it treats as a typological event.

The last section describes at length various aspects of the key status assigned to the Bible in the new Jewish culture in Europe, and particularly in modern Jewish Palestine, as a “guide to life” in education, culture and politics, as well as part of the attempt to create a new Jewish man, and as a source of inspiration for various creative arts.

Author / Editor information

Yaacov Shavit, Tel Aviv University, Israel;Mordechai Eran , Tel Aviv, Israel.

Reviews

"Das Buch zeichnet sich durch seine gründliche und methodische Auswertung des - ebenso umfassenden wie disparaten - Quellenmaterials und durch dessen abwägende Bewertung aus. Es illustriert die fundierende Bedeutung der Bibel in unterschiedlichen Lebensbezügen, Problemlagen und Fragestellungen und erlaubt ebenso lehrreiche wie spannende Einblicke in die facettenreiche Geschichte der historischen Bibelkritik im Judentum."
Michael Tilly in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 10.134/2009

"[...] its scope and depth make this thoroughly researched study on a highly consequential subject an invaluable source for Jewish and German religious and intellectual history."
Michael M. Meyer in: American Historical Review 2/2009

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. The Biblical Revolution in Modern Jewish History and the Struggle over the Bible in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 1. “Back to the Bible”: The Biblical Revolution in the Nineteenth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter 2. Wellhausen and his School: The Jewish Response to Higher Criticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Chapter 3. “Truth Shall Spring out of the Earth”: The Initial Jewish Reaction to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Part Two. The War of The Tablets
Chapter 4. The Babel-Bibel Controversy as a Typological Event Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Chapter 5. Friedrich Delitzsch and a Second ‘Tower of Babel’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Chapter 6. Delitzsch’s Three Lectures on Babel and Bibel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Chapter 7. The Controversy in the German Arena: Theology vs. Science Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Chapter 8. At War – Within and Without Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Chapter 9. Contra Delitzsch: Revelation, Originality and Ethics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Chapter 10. From Noah to the Sabbath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Part Three. In Search of Jewish and Hebrew Bible Study
Chapter 11. After Delitzsch: The Bible and Jewish Bible Study in Germany between the Two World Wars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Chapter 12. Bible Criticism Arrives in Eretz Israel: Struggle and Reception Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Chapter 13. “Extra-academic” Bible Study and Bible Criticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
Chapter 14. Orthodox Bible Criticism in Eretz Israel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Chapter 15. The Bible as History and Biblical Archaeology: “Can Two Walk Together?” (Amos 3:3) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	434
Part Four. The Well of the Bible: The Biblical Culture in the Jewish Society in Eretz Israel (1882–2005)
Chapter 16. The National Bible vs. the Cultural Bible Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475
Chapter 17. The Golden Age of Biblical Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	490
Chapter 18. From “Golden Age” to Decline? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	516
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	521
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 566
Keywords: Old Testament; Hebrew Bible; Babel-Bible Controversy; Near Eastern Archeology; Biblical Criticism

eBook

Published: September 25, 2008
ISBN: 9783110200935

Hardcover

Published: April 16, 2007
ISBN: 9783110191417