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"Brettler is clearly a master, and his book should be the first choice for any non-specialist interested in the field."
UNKNOWN
October 2005
384 pages
ISBN: 082760775X
Hardcover
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Inspirational | Non-Fiction
In his new book, master Bible scholar and teacher Marc
Brettler argues that today's contemporary readers can only
understand the ancient Hebrew Scripture by knowing more
about the culture that produced it. And so Brettler unpacks
the literary conventions, ideological assumptions, and
historical conditions that inform the biblical text and
demonstrates how modern critical scholarship and
archaeological discoveries shed light on this fascinating
and complex literature. Brettler surveys representative biblical texts from
different genres to illustrate how modern scholars have
taught us to "read" these texts. Using the
"historical-critical method" long popular in academia, he
guides us in reading the Bible as it was read in the
biblical period, independent of later religious norms and
interpretive traditions. Understanding the Bible this way
lets us appreciate it as an interesting text that speaks in
multiple voices on profound issues. This book is the first "Jewishly sensitive" introduction to
the historical-critical method. Unlike other introductory
texts, the Bible that this book speaks about is the Jewish
one -- with the three-part TaNaKH arrangement, the sequence
of books found in modern printed Hebrew editions, and the
chapter and verse enumerations used in most modern Jewish
versions of the Bible. In an afterword, the author discusses how the
historical-critical method can help contemporary Jews relate
to the Bible as a religious text in a more meaningful way.
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