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Surpassing wonder : the invention of the Bible and the Talmuds / Donald Harman Akenson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 658 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773568419
  • 0773568417
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Surpassing wonder.DDC classification:
  • 220.6 23
LOC classification:
  • BS511.2 .A385 1998eb
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Contents:
Contents -- Figures and Tables -- 1 Introduction: Us and the Semites -- INVENTING THE COVENANT -- 2 Apparent Woe and Great Invention -- 3 Returning with Yahweh to Jerusalem -- 4 History's All-Embracing Arms: The Covenant -- INVENTIVE FECUNDITY AND JUDAHIST MULTIPLICITY: THE LATER SECOND TEMPLE ERA -- 5 Siloam's Teeming Pool -- I -- 6 Siloam's Teeming Pool -- II -- 7 Siloam's Teeming Pool -- III -- THE INVENTION OF CHRISTIANITY -- 8 The Re-Invention of the Species -- 9 From Yeshua of Nazareth to Jesus the Christ -- THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH FAITH
10 Don't Stare at the Neighbours11 The Hermetic, Perfect Mishnah -- 12 Taming the Mishnah: Tractate Aboth, the Tosefta, Sifra, and the Yerushalmi -- 13 The Bounteous Bavli and the Invention of the Dual Torah -- 14 Conclusion: Surpassing Wonder -- Notes -- APPENDICES -- A: Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- E -- F -- G -- H -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- Y -- B: Biblical Chronology -- C: The Manuscript Base of the Holy Scriptures -- D: Modern Biblical Scholarship and the Quest for the Historical Yeshua
E: The Great Rabbinic Corpus: Access, Dating, Translation, Methods, and QueriesGeneral Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Textual Index
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Contents -- Figures and Tables -- 1 Introduction: Us and the Semites -- INVENTING THE COVENANT -- 2 Apparent Woe and Great Invention -- 3 Returning with Yahweh to Jerusalem -- 4 History's All-Embracing Arms: The Covenant -- INVENTIVE FECUNDITY AND JUDAHIST MULTIPLICITY: THE LATER SECOND TEMPLE ERA -- 5 Siloam's Teeming Pool -- I -- 6 Siloam's Teeming Pool -- II -- 7 Siloam's Teeming Pool -- III -- THE INVENTION OF CHRISTIANITY -- 8 The Re-Invention of the Species -- 9 From Yeshua of Nazareth to Jesus the Christ -- THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH FAITH

10 Don't Stare at the Neighbours11 The Hermetic, Perfect Mishnah -- 12 Taming the Mishnah: Tractate Aboth, the Tosefta, Sifra, and the Yerushalmi -- 13 The Bounteous Bavli and the Invention of the Dual Torah -- 14 Conclusion: Surpassing Wonder -- Notes -- APPENDICES -- A: Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- E -- F -- G -- H -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- Y -- B: Biblical Chronology -- C: The Manuscript Base of the Holy Scriptures -- D: Modern Biblical Scholarship and the Quest for the Historical Yeshua

E: The Great Rabbinic Corpus: Access, Dating, Translation, Methods, and QueriesGeneral Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Textual Index

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