The Hebrew Bible reborn from Holy Scripture to the Book of Books : a history of biblical culture and the battles over the Bible in modern Judaism / [electronic resource] :
by Yaacov Shavit, Mordechai Eran ; translated by Chaya Naor.
- Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2007.
- x, 566 p. ; 24 cm.
- Studia Judaica : forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums, Bd. 38 0585-5306 ; .
- Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; Bd. 38. .
Expanded translation of Milḥemet ha-luḥot.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [541]-550) and index.
"Back to the Bible" : the biblical revolution in the nineteenth century -- Wellhausen and his school : the Jewish response to higher criticism -- "Truth shall spring out of the earth : the initial Jewish reaction to the archaeology of the ancient Near East -- The Babel-Bibel controversy as a typological event -- Friedrich Delitzsch and a second "Tower of Babel" -- Delitzsch's three lectures on Babel and Bibel -- The controversy in the German arena : theology vs. science -- At war : within and without -- Contra Delitzsch : revelation, originality and ethics -- From Noah to the Sabbath -- After Delitzsch : the Bible and Jewish Bible study in Germany between the two world wars -- Bible criticism arrives in Eretz Israel : struggle and reception -- "Extra-academic" Bible study and Bible criticism -- Orthodox Bible criticism in Eretz Israel -- The Bible as history and biblical archaeology: "can two walk together? (Amos 3:3) -- The national Bible vs. the cultural Bible -- The golden age of biblical culture -- From golden age to decline.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Delitzsch, Friedrich, 1850-1922. Babel und Bibel.
Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish--History--19th century Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish--History--20th century Bible.--Old Testament--Evidences, authority, etc.