The Bible's Many Voices
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The Bible's Many Voices

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Bible's Many Voices

About this book

The most common English translations of the Bible often sound like a single, somewhat archaic voice. In fact, the Bible is made up of many separate books composed by multiple writers in a wide range of styles and perspectives. It is, as Michael Carasik demonstrates, not a remote text reserved for churches and synagogues but rather a human document full of history, poetry, politics, theology, and spirituality. Using historic, linguistic, anthropological, and theological sources, Carasik helps us distinguish between the Jewish Bible's voices—the mythic, the historical, the prophetic, the theological, and the legal. By articulating the differences among these voices, he shows us not just their messages and meanings but also what mattered to the authors. In these contrasts we encounter the Bible anew as a living work whose many voices tell us about the world out of which the Bible grew—and the world that it created.
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Read Me First
  8. Whose Bible Is It?
  9. 1. The Sound of the Biblical Voices
  10. 2. Historical Voices
  11. 3. Theological Voices
  12. 4. Legal Voices
  13. 5. Prophetic Voices
  14. 6. Women’s Voices
  15. 7. Voices of the Wise
  16. 8. Foreign Voices
  17. 9. Voices of Song and Legend
  18. 10. Echoes and Reverberations
  19. Footnotes
  20. Jewish and Christian Biblical Order
  21. Index
  22. About the Author
  23. Other Works by Michael Carasik