The Jewish Bible
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Jewish Publication Society,
2008.
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| Series: | JPS guide.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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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.