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The seventy faces of Torah : the Jewish way of reading the Sacred Scriptures / Stephen M. Wylen.
- Title
- The seventy faces of Torah : the Jewish way of reading the Sacred Scriptures / Stephen M. Wylen.
- Author
- Wylen, Stephen M., 1952-
- Publication
- New York ; Mahwah, N.J. : Paulist Press, c2005.
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| Text | Request in advance | BS1225.52 .W95 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 238 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Judaism, Christianity and Islam all acknowledge the Hebrew Bible to be sacred Scripture. And yet these different, and often contradictory, religions each has its own way of reading the Bible, interpreting it according to its own later sacred literature. The Seventy Faces of Torah explains in clear and accessible language the Jewish art of reading and interpreting the Bible and introduces the reader to the major texts and genres of rabbinic literature"--back cover.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-225) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- One Bible, two different books : Jewish Torah and Christian Old Testament -- The ever-expanding Torah -- The seventy faces of Torah -- Jewish education and Torah -- Levels of Torah -- Midrash -- Mishnah and Talmud -- Commentary -- Mystical midrash -- Orthodoxy and modernity : the Jewish encounter with fundamentalism -- Torah study today.
- ISBN
- 0809141795 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005000451
- OCLC
- 57422618
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library