Reading the Book: Making the Bible a Timeless Text - Softcover

Visotzky, Burton L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805210725 ISBN 13: 9780805210729

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1996

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For many people the Bible is a dusty old book with little relevance to their lives. but for Burton L. Visotzky the Bible is a living entity that can offer endless insights for its readers if they enter into dialogue with it in the manner of the ancient rabbis, whose midrash, or commentary, has accompanied it almost from its beginning. Focusing on themes in key biblical texts - good and evil, sexuality, parent-child relations, silbling rivalry, faith, and creation - Reading the Book demonstrates the ingenuity and richness of this traditional Jewish approach. It then shows how readers of any relgion can creat their own midrashim and develop living relationships with the text.

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Burton L. Visotzky holds the Nathan and Janet Applebaum Chair in Midrash at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he is director of the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies.

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n to all--regardless of religious background--to engage the Bible, grapple with its language, unlock its mysteries, and understand its relevance in our own time. Reading the Book is the model for Bill Moyers's forthcoming 10-part PBS series, Genesis: A Living Conversation, to be aired in the fall of 1996.

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0805210725
• ISBN 13: 9780805210729
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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