Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the TalmudsElegant and inventive, Surpassing Wonder uncovers how the ancient Hebrew scriptures, the Christian New Testament, and the Talmuds of the Rabbis are related and how, collectively, they make up the core of Western consciousness. Donald Harman Akenson provides an incisive critique of how religious scholars have distorted the holy books and argues that it was actually the inventor of the Hebrew scriptures who shaped our concept of narrative history—thereby founding Western culture. |
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SURPASSING WONDER: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds
Κριτική χρηστών - KirkusVenturing as an amateur into biblical and Judaic studies, historian Akenson (Queen's University, Ontario) constructs a brilliant integrative theory of continuities and parallels between Hebrew ... Ανάγνωση ολόκληρης της κριτικής
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Κριτική χρηστών - stevenschroeder - LibraryThingAkenson describes Surpassing Wonder as a long love letter to Tanakh, the "New Testament," and the Talmuds. Readers are well advised to approach the book with something of a lover's patient indulgence ... Ανάγνωση ολόκληρης της κριτικής
Περιεχόμενα
III | 19 |
IV | 64 |
V | 91 |
VI | 107 |
VII | 109 |
VIII | 133 |
IX | 171 |
X | 209 |
XVI | 328 |
XVII | 366 |
XVIII | 399 |
XIX | 415 |
XX | 511 |
XXI | 513 |
XXII | 518 |
XXIII | 526 |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds Donald Harman Akenson Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 1998 |
Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds Donald H. Akenson Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2001 |
Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds Donald Harman Akenson Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2001 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
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Πληροφορίες βιβλιογραφίας
| Τίτλος | Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series |
| Συγγραφέας | Donald H. Akenson |
| Έκδοση | εικονογραφημένη |
| Εκδότης | University of Chicago Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0226010732, 9780226010731 |
| Μέγεθος | 658 σελίδες |
| Εξαγωγή αναφοράς | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |