Bible: A Modern Jewish Approach

by Bernard Jacob Bamberger

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805200622
• ISBN13: 9780805200621
• Release Date: January 1963
• Publisher: Schocken Books
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What a beautiful little book

This is a wonderful introduction to the Hebrew Bible. Bamberger is concise and lyrical in his describing the Hebrew Bible, and the place it has had for the Jewish people and mankind. Here is Bamberger's own summary of the major message of the work. "Ancient Israel was a little people unimportant in numbers, wealth, material culture, military power, political influence. During a large part of its national history it was subordinate to great powers which possessed an advanced technical and artistic civilization. Yet this little people, over a period of centuries , produced writings vibrant with passion and beauty, that proclaim a new and sublime way of life. They taught an unseen, amythical, universal, righteous God.Against the authority of divinely born or ordained kings they upheld the dignity and freedom of the plain man. They affirmed the unity of mankind and the right of all men to just and compassionate treatment. They envisioned a world redeemed from tyranny and war, where men might live in harmony and brotherhood under the divine law." This book also considers what it calls the 'deficiencies of the Bible' 'Biblical Criticism, Texts and Translations of the Bible, the idea of the Messiah, The Chosen People, The Bible as teaching a special way of life. A beautiful little book.