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 / by Yaacov Shavit, Mordechai Eran ; translated by Chaya Naor.
Expanded translation of Milḥemet ha-luḥot. Includes bibliographical references (pages [541]-550) and index.
Contents:
Back to the Bible : the biblical revolution in the nineteenth century -- Wellhausen and his school : the Jewish response to higher criticism -- Truth shall spring out of the earth : the initial Jewish reaction to the archaeology of the ancient Near East -- The Babel-Bibel controversy as a typological event -- Friedrich Delitzsch and a second Tower of Babel -- Delitzsch's three lectures on Babel and Bibel -- The controversy in the German arena : theology vs. science -- At war : within and without -- Contra Delitzsch : revelation, originality and ethics -- From Noah to the Sabbath -- After Delitzsch : the Bible and Jewish Bible study in Germany between the two world wars -- Bible criticism arrives in Eretz Israel : struggle and reception -- Extra-academic Bible study and Bible criticism -- Orthodox Bible criticism in Eretz Israel -- The Bible as history and biblical archaeology : can two walk together? (Amos 3:3) -- The national Bible vs. the cultural Bible -- The golden age of biblical culture -- From golden age to decline.
Series:
Studia Judaica : forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums, 0585-5306 ; Bd. 38
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