The Bible's Many Voices
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 ch...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln
JPS
2014
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| In: | Year: 2014 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Carasik, Michael, 1952-, The Bible's many voices] (2016) (Rosenberg, Simcha)
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
B Bible ; Old Testament ; Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Summary: | 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 theolog |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 0827609353 |