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Cargando... How the Bible Became Holypor Michael L. Satlow
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Instructive examination of the possible process by which oral tales, law codes, wisdom sayings, poetry and other materials were recorded in writing, distributed and ultimately designated as scripture, with the normative, oracular and literary values that were placed on them by different communities at different times. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In this sweeping narrative, Michael Satlow tells the fascinating story of how an ancient collection of obscure Israelite writings became the founding texts of both Judaism and Christianity, considered holy by followers of each faith. Drawing on cutting-edge historical and archeological research, he traces the story of how, when, and why Jews and Christians gradually granted authority to texts that had long lay dormant in a dusty temple archive. The Bible, Satlow maintains, was not the consecrated book it is now until quite late in its history. He describes how elite scribes in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E. began the process that led to the creation of several of our biblical texts. It was not until these were translated into Greek in Egypt in the second century B.C.E., however, that some Jews began to see them as culturally authoritative, comparable to Homer's works in contemporary Greek society. Then, in the first century B.C.E. in Israel, political machinations resulted in the Sadducees assigning legal power to the writings. We see how the world Jesus was born into was largely biblically illiterate and how he knew very little about the texts upon which his apostles would base his spiritual leadership. Synthesizing an enormous body of scholarly work, Satlow's groundbreaking study offers provocative new assertions about commonly accepted interpretations of biblical history as well as a unique window into how two of the world's great faiths came into being. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Leggendo la traduzione di Massimo Scorsone mi sono chiesto perché mai chiami "apocrifi della Bibbia cattolica" i testi deuterocanonici (che comunque sono accettati anche dagli ortodossi), o parli di "Giovanni il Battezzatore" - e passi - e di "Gaio Plinio Secondo", confondendo il lettore poco attento. ( )