Bibliograph

The Jewish Bible

Type

Label

The Jewish Bible

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-279) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Jewish Bible

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

213495200

Series statement

JPS guide

Summary

This guide to the Jewish Bible explains what the Jewish Bible is, how it developed, its structure and differences between it and Christian Bibles. It also includes short histories of Bible translations and commentaries, a guide to characters and places, plus an introduction to Biblical poetry, storytelling, law and Bible study

Table Of Contents

What is the Bible? -- How the Bible became "the Bible" -- The origins of the Hebrew Bible text -- The Torah scroll -- Public reading of the Torah -- A short history of Bible translations -- The matter of gender in the JPS Torah translation -- Storytelling in the Bible -- Biblical law -- Biblical poetry -- The books of the Prophets -- Wisdom literature -- Methods of Bible study -- Commentaries on the Bible -- Midrash -- Summaries of the books of the Bible -- Glossary -- Family tree of the Torah -- Weights and measures in the Bible -- Timeline of Biblical events -- Chronology of the prophets -- Chronology of the monarchies -- Familiar quotations from the Bible -- Maps of Biblical lands

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