Hebrew Bible Reborn:From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism

This work, the first of its kind, describes all the aspects of the Bible revolution in Jewish history in the last two hundred years, as well as the emergence of the new biblical culture. It describes the circumstances and processes that turned Holy Scripture into the Book of Books and into the history of the biblical period and of the Jewish people. It deals with the encounter of the Jews with modern biblical criticism, the archaeological research of the Ancient Near East, with contemporary archaeology, the Bible-Babel polemic at the start of the twentieth century, and the use of the bible as a a oeguide to lifea in education, culture and politics.Eran, Mordechai is the author of 'Hebrew Bible Reborn:From Holy Scripture to the Book of Books A History of Biblical Culture and the Battles over the Bible in Modern Judaism', published 2007 under ISBN 9783110191417 and ISBN 3110191415.