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The Jewish Bible.

Bibliographic Details
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society, 2008.
Subjects:
Bible. > Old Testament > Introductions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • What is the Bible?
  • How the Bible became "the Bible"
  • The origins of the Hebrew Bible text
  • The Torah scroll
  • Public reading of the Torah
  • A short history of Bible translations
  • The matter of gender in the JPS Torah translation
  • Storytelling in the Bible
  • Biblical law
  • Biblical poetry
  • The books of the Prophets
  • Wisdom literature
  • Methods of Bible study
  • Commentaries on the Bible
  • Midrash
  • Summaries of the books of the Bible
  • Glossary
  • Family tree of the Torah
  • Weights and measures in the Bible
  • Timeline of Biblical events
  • Chronology of the prophets
  • Chronology of the monarchies
  • Familiar quotations from the Bible
  • Maps of Biblical lands.