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The Book of Revolutions: The Battles of Priests, Prophets, and Kings That Birthed the Torah - Softcover

Feld, Edward

 
9780827615229: The Book of Revolutions: The Battles of Priests, Prophets, and Kings That Birthed the Torah
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0827615221 ISBN 13: 9780827615229
Verlag: Jewish Publication Society, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

The Torah is truly the Book of Revolutions, born from a military coup (the Northern Israelite revolution), the aftermath of an assassination and regency (a Judean revolution), and a quiet but radical revolution effected by outsiders whose ideas proved persuasive (Babylonian exile). Emerging from each of these were three key legal codes—the Covenant Code (Exodus), the Deuteronomic Code (Deuteronomy), and the Holiness Code (Leviticus)—which in turn shaped the Bible, biblical Judaism, and Judaism today.

In dramatic historical accounts grounded in recent Bible scholarship, Edward Feld unveils the epic saga of ancient Israel as the visionary legacy of inspired authors in different times and places. Prophetic teaching and differing social realities shaped new understandings concretized in these law codes. Revolutionary biblical ideas often encountered great difficulties in their time before they triumphed. Eventually master editors wove the threads together, intentionally preserving competing narratives and law codes. Ultimately, the Torah is an emblem of pluralistic belief born of revolutionary moments that preserved spiritual realities that continue to speak powerfully to us today.

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Edward Feld is senior editor of Siddur Lev Shalem, the Rabbinical Assembly prayerbook for Sabbaths and festivals, and its sister High Holiday volume Mahzor Lev Shalem. He is the author of The Spirit of Renewal: Faith after the Holocaust and Joy, Despair, and Hope: Reading Psalms.

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Verlag
Jewish Publication Society
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0827615221
ISBN 13 
9780827615229
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
292
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