| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Secularists and the Not Godless World 1 -- Part 1 The Composition of the Hebrew Bible -- Part 2 The Interpreters of the Hebrew Bible -- Part 3 Politics and Scripture -- Conclusion: Beyond Church and State: New Directions for Secularism 130 |
| Summary |
"In The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously, Jacques Berlinerblau suggests that atheists and agnostics must take stock of that which they so adamantly oppose. Defiantly maintaining a shallow understanding of religion, he argues, is not a politically prudent strategy in this day and age. But this book is no less critical of many believers, who - Berlinerblau contends - need to emancipate themselves from ways of thinking about their faith that are dangerously simplistic, irrational, and outdated. Exploring the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, from the perspective of a specialist, nonbeliever, and critic of the academic religious studies establishment, Berlinerblau begins by offering a provocative answer to the question of "who wrote the Bible?""--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-197) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Old Testament -- Introductions
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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Bibel Altes Testament gnd |
| Subject |
Secularism.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament.
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Secularism
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Säkularismus
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| Genre/Form |
Introductions
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511338427 |
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0511338422 |
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0511337337 |
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9780511337338 |
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9780511614828 |
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0511614829 |
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