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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 schola...
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University of Washington Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Seattle : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The Samuel & 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 prin |
| Item Description: | "A Samuel and Althea Stroum book." |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 303 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-285) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780295741482 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0295741481 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | BS1130 |
| CLC: | B971.1-09 |
| Call Number: | B971.1-09/S839 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- The Torah Scroll -- The Hebrew Bible in the age of the manuscript -- The Jewish Bible in the early age of print -- The Jewish Bible since the sixteenth century -- Epilogue : the future of the Jewish Bible. |