People of the Book: Canon, Meaning, and Authority

by Moshe Halbertal

Book Overview

While Scripture is at the center of many religions, among them Islam and Christianity, this book inquires into the function, development, and implications of the centrality of text upon the Jewish community, and by extension on the larger question of canonization and the text-centered community. It is a commonplace to note how the landless and scattered Jewish communities have, from the time of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674661125
• ISBN13: 9780674661127
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"