How to Read the Bible - 9780827607750

How to Read the BibleAuthor(s): Marc Zvi Brettler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Jewish Publication Society, United States\nImprint: Jewish Publication Society\nISBN-13: 9780827607750, 978-0827607750\nSynopsis\n\""As a professor of biblical studies, I am frequently sent textbooks . . . and I often consult academic introductions to the field as well. None of them is as clear, sophisticated, and readable as this book. For Jewish and non-Jewish readers. . . . The book's accomplishments remain stellar.-Benjamin D. Sommer; Shma/Koret Book Review\n\nMaster Bible scholar and teacher Marc Brettler argues that todays contemporary readers can only understand the ancient Hebrew Scripture by knowing more about the culture that produced it. And so Brettler unpacks the literary conventions, ideological assumptions, and historical conditions that inform the biblical text and demonstrates how modern critical scholarship and archaeological discoveries shed light on this fascinating and complex literatu.