The Jews and the Bible

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Автор: Attias, Jean-Christophe

Название: The Jews and the Bible

Язык: английский, пер. с фр.

Издательство: Stanford, California: Stanford University Press

Год: 2014

Объем: 503 p.

Формат: pdf

Размер: 13,7 mb

Jean-Christophe Attias is Professor of Medieval Jewish Thought at the École pratique des hautes études, Sorbonne, Paris.

Despite its deceptively simple title, this book ponders the thorny issue of the place of the Bible in Jewish religion and culture. By thoroughly examining the complex link that the Jews have formed with the Bible, Jewish scholar Jean-Christophe Attias raises the uncomfortable question of whether it is still relevant for them.

Jews and the Bible reveals how the Jews define themselves in various times and places with the Bible, without the Bible, and against the Bible. Is it divine revelation or national myth? Literature or legislative code? One book or a disparate library? Text or object? For the Jews, over the past two thousand years or more, the Bible has been all that and much more. In fact, Attias argues that the Bible is nothing in and of itself. Like the Koran, the Bible has never been anything other than what its readers make of it. But what they've made of it tells a fascinating story and raises provocative philosophical and ethical questions.

The Bible is indeed an elusive book, and so Attias explores the fundamental discrepancy between what we think the Bible tells us about Judaism and what Judaism actually tells us about the Bible. With passion and intellect, Attias informs and enlightens the reader, never shying away from the difficult questions, ultimately asking: In our post-genocide and post-Zionist culture, can the Bible be saved?

A strangely plural singular --

Bibles, canons, and languages --

Prophets, texts, and books --

Bible object, Bible in pieces --

The Bible in boxes --

The Bible in scrolls --

The Bible in person --

The Bible in pieces --

The improbable locus of an identity --

The Bible and Jewishness --

The Greeks, the Arabs, and us --

Facing the Christians : their scriptures and ours --

The Karaite temptation : sola scriptura? --

Reading the Bible at the risk of heresy --

Children, women, and the people --

The scholars' Bible --

The immense ocean of commentaries --

The Bible of the moderns --

The critical age, or the Bible humiliated --

Toward a postcritical age, or the Bible redeemed --

The political age, or the Bible manifesto.

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