Michael Carasik

Bible's Many Voices (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The most common English translations of the Bible often sound like a single, somewhat archaic voice. In fact, the Bible is made up of many separate books composed by multiple writers in a wide range of styles and perspectives. It is, as Michael Carasik demonstrates, not a remote text reserved for churches and synagogues but rather a human document full of history, poetry, politics, theology, and spirituality. Using historic, linguistic, anthropological, and theological sources, Carasik helps us distinguish between the Jewish Bible's voices-the mythic, the historical, the prophetic, the theological, and the legal. By articulating the differences among these voices, he shows us not just their messages and meanings but also what mattered to the authors. In these contrasts we encounter the Bible anew as a living work whose many voices tell us about the world out of which the Bible grew-and the world that it created.Listen to the author's podcast.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Jewish Publication Society
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780827611610
• Artikelnr.: 40616458

Autorenporträt

Michael Carasik is the compiler and translator of the Rubin JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot Commentators' Bible series and the author of Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Read Me First
Whose Bible Is It?
1. The Sound of the Biblical Voices
2. Historical Voices
3. Theological Voices
4. Legal Voices
5. Prophetic Voices
6. Women’s Voices
7. Voices of the Wise
8. Foreign Voices
9. Voices of Song and Legend
10. Echoes and Reverberations
Index