Fighting Over the Bible
(
Serie Brill Reference Library of Judaism
)
Published in
Leiden, Netherlands
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Fighting over the Bible explores the bitter conicts between main stream Jews and their internal and external opponents, especially between particular Jewish groups such as Pharisees, Sadducees, Qumranites, Samaritans, Rabbanites and Karaites, as well as with Christians and Muslims regarding their interpretations of Jewish Scripture. The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament is an important sacred text for all branches of the Abrahamic faiths, but it has more often divided than unied them. This volume explores and exemplies the roots of these interpretive conicts and controversies and traces the rich exegetical and theological approaches that grew out of them. Focusing on the Jewish sources from the late Second Temple period through the high Middle-Ages, it illustrates how the study of the Bible lled the vacuum left by the Temple’s destruction, and became the foundation of Jewish life throughout its long conicted history.
