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The Jewish Bible - A Material History (Hardcover)
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The Jewish Bible - A Material History (Hardcover)
Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
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In The Jewish Bible: A Material History, David Stern explores the
Jewish Bible as a material object-the Bibles that Jews have
actually held in their hands-from its beginnings in the Ancient
Near Eastern world through to the Middle Ages to the present
moment. Drawing on the most recent scholarship on the history of
the book, Stern shows how the Bible has been not only a medium for
transmitting its text-the word of God-but a physical object with a
meaning of its own. That meaning has changed, as the material shape
of the Bible has changed, from scroll to codex, and from manuscript
to printed book. By tracing the material form of the Torah, Stern
demonstrates how the process of these transformations echo the
cultural, political, intellectual, religious, and geographic
changes of the Jewish community. With tremendous historical range
and breadth, this book offers a fresh approach to understanding the
Bible's place and significance in Jewish culture.
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