What do Jews think scripture is? How do the People of the Book
conceive of the Book of Books? In what ways is it authoritative?
Who has the right to interpret it? Is it divinely or humanly
written? And have Jews always thought about the Bible in the same
way? In seventeen cohesive and rigorously researched essays, this
volume traces the way some of the most important Jewish thinkers
throughout history have addressed these questions from the rabbinic
era through the medieval Islamic world to modern Jewish
scholarship. They address why different Jewish thinkers, writers,
and communities have turned to the Bible-and what they expect to
get from it. Ultimately, argues editor Benjamin D. Sommer, in
understanding the ways Jews construct scripture, we begin to
understand the ways Jews construct themselves.
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