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TitleThe Making of the Bible : From the first fragments to sacred scripture / Konrad Schmid and Jens Schroter; translated by Peter Lewis
AuthorSchmid, Konrad. / Schroter, Jens. / Lewis, Peter.
Call No220.1 SCH
CollectionNon Fiction
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International Standard Book Number 9780674248380
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 220.1 SCH
Personal Name Schmid, Konrad.
Title Statement The Making of the Bible : From the first fragments to sacred scripture / Konrad Schmid and Jens Schroter; translated by Peter Lewis
Imprint Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press, 2021.
Physical Description 439p.
General Note Includes Index and Bibliographical References.
General Note First published in German as Die Entstehung der Bibel: Von den ersten Texten zu den heiligen Schriften by Konrad Schmid and Jens Schro¨ter, © Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, Mu¨nchen 2019
Summary, Etc. "The Bible as we know it today is best understood as a process, one that begins in the tenth century BCE. In this revelatory account, a world-renowned scholar of Hebrew scripture joins a foremost authority on the New Testament to write a new biography of the Book of Books, reconstructing Jewish and Christian scriptural histories, as well as the underappreciated contest between them, from which the Bible arose. Recent scholarship has overturned popular assumptions about Israel's past, suggesting, for instance, that the five books of the Torah were written not by Moses but during the reign of Josiah centuries later. The sources of the Gospels are also under scrutiny. Konrad Schmid and Jens Schro¨ter reveal the long, transformative journeys of these and other texts en route to inclusion in the holy books. The New Testament, the authors show, did not develop in the wake of an Old Testament set in stone. Rather the two evolved in parallel, in conversation with each other, ensuring a continuing mutual influence of Jewish and Christian traditions. Indeed, Schmid and Schro¨ter argue that Judaism might not have survived had it not been reshaped in competition with early Christianity. A remarkable synthesis of the latest Old and New Testament scholarship, The Making of the Bible is the most comprehensive history yet told of the world's best-known literature, revealing its buried lessons and secrets."-- Dust jacket
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term BIBLE - CRITICISM, INTERPRETATION, ETC.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term BIBLE - HISTORY.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term BIBLE - CANON.
Added Entry, Personal Name Schroter, Jens.
Added Entry, Personal Name Lewis, Peter.