Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the TalmudsHarcourt Brace, 1998 - Всего страниц: 658 With wit, elegance, and clarity, "Surpassing Wonder" illuminates the ancient Hebrew scriptures, the Christian New Testament, and the Talmuds of the rabbis by showing who wrote them, under what circumstances, and why they were given the shape they have. These works constitute the very core of our cultural consciousness and in every century have been hidden from us -- first by priests, then by fundamentalists, and now by narrow scholars. Here, with biting irreverence for prejudice and pretension, Donald Akenson renews our sense of awe before these sacred works by encountering them head-on, by setting them in their historical and political context -- and by daring to speculate that there was one author-editor of the Hebrew scriptures, and one for the Christian New Testament, and that the inventor of the Hebrew scriptures should be credited with constructing the very foundations of Western culture. He simultaneously restores their spiritual power through a just appreciation of the authors' achievement and provides a brilliant expose of how theologians and biblical scholars abuse historical reasoning and evidence in their treatment of the sacred texts. Using images that range from Winnie-the-Pooh to tractor mechanics, this world-renowned historian creates for us a radical reformation of the sacred texts as he breathes new life into our religions and helps us understand, and revere, the heritage that flows from Jerusalem. |
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... concerning even the most basic definitions of the question of the degree of Greek cultural in- fluence on Palestine and upon diaspora followers of Yahweh . Scholars use the same words , but without shared meaning , and thus they talk ...
... concerning how the Temple actually was built , not of Yahweh's instructions for its archi- tecture . " Surely , if the ' books of Moses ' are truly a Torah , they would include the plans for the Temple , for that is the focal point of ...
... concerning Yeshua's spiritual authority . The neutral , slightly skeptical , angle of vision that charac- terizes Josephus on these matters is one of the more convincing guarantees of their being independent observations . - The ...
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Us and the Semites | 3 |
Apparent Woe and Great Invention | 19 |
Returning with Yahweh to Jerusalem | 64 |
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