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

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This work, the first of its kind, describes all the aspects of the Bible revolution in Jewish history in the last two hundred years, as well as the emergence of the new biblical culture. It describes the circumstances and processes that turned Holy Scripture into the Book of Books and into the history of the biblical period and of the Jewish people. It deals with the encounter of the Jews with modern biblical criticism, the archaeological research of the Ancient Near East, with contemporary archaeology, the Bible-Babel polemic at the start of the twentieth century, and the use of the bible as a "guide to life" in education, culture and politics. Frontmatter Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1. “Back to the Bible”: The Biblical Revolution in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 2. Wellhausen and his School: The Jewish Response to Higher Criticism Chapter 3. “Truth Shall Spring out of the Earth”: The Initial Jewish Reaction to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Chapter 4. The Babel-Bibel Controversy as a Typological Event Chapter 5. Friedrich Delitzsch and a Second ‘Tower of Babel’ Chapter 6. Delitzsch’s Three Lectures on Babel and Bibel Chapter 7. The Controversy in the German Arena: Theology vs. Science Chapter 8. At War – Within and Without Chapter 9. Contra Delitzsch: Revelation, Originality and Ethics Chapter 10. From Noah to the Sabbath Chapter 11. After Delitzsch: The Bible and Jewish Bible Study in Germany between the Two World Wars Chapter 12. Bible Criticism Arrives in Eretz Israel: Struggle and Reception Chapter 13. “Extra-academic” Bible Study and Bible Criticism Chapter 14. Orthodox Bible Criticism in Eretz Israel Chapter 15. The Bible as History and Biblical Archaeology: “Can Two Walk Together?” (Amos 3:3) Chapter 16. The National Bible vs. the Cultural Bible Chapter 17. The Golden Age of Biblical Culture Chapter 18. From “Golden Age” to Decline? Afterword Backmatter