The voice, the Word, the books : the sacred scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims / F.E. Pe...
The voice, the Word, the books : the sacred scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims / F.E. Pe...
The voice, the Word, the books : the sacred scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims / F.E. Peters.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.
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N208.2/2
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English
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Physical content
x, 292 p., 16 p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction : the voice from Sinai -- Ch. 1. Sacred words, sacred book -- Ch. 2. Book shaping : the making of a canon -- Ch. 3. Reciters, rhapsodes, and scribes : how the Bible reached us -- Ch. 4. The reporters : the good news and how we got it -- Ch. 5. The poet in performance : the composition o...
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
c2007.
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Summary
"Jews, Christians, and Muslims all believe that their Scriptures preserve God's words to humanity, and that those words were spoken uniquely to them. In The Voice, the Word, the Books, F. E. Peters leads readers on an extraordinary journey through centuries of written tradition to uncover the human fingerprints on the Hebrew Bible, the New Testamen...
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The voice, the Word, the books : the sacred scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims / F.E. Peters.
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Includes index.
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c2007.
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N208.2/2
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0691131120 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691131122 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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208.2
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991023263379702626
