The Voice, the Word, the Books

Name: The Voice, the Word, the Books | The Sacred Scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims
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The Sacred Scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims

Francis Edward Peters(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 26. Juni 2018

328 Seiten

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction. The Voice from Sinai
Chapter 1. Sacred Words, Sacred Book
"Thus Spake Yahweh": What Is the Bible?
"Then the Lord Said": What Is the New Testament?
"Recite! in the Name of God": What Is the Quran?
Chapter 2. Book Shaping: The Making of a Canon
From Biblia to Book: The Making of the Bible
The Making of a "New" Testament
The "Old" and the "New" in the Covenant
The Collection of the Quran
Chapter 3. Reciters, Rhapsodes, and Scribes: How the Bible Reached Us
The Matter of Authorship
The Higher Criticism of the Bible
Composing and Performing
The Scribes
From Recitation to Writing
Authors behind the Authors
Enter J, E, and Company
The Writing Begins
Jeremiah
Who "Wrote" the Books?
Writing in Scripture
The Levites
The Masoretes
Chapter 4. The Reporters: The Good News and How We Got It
Jesus: The Setting
The Gospels
Extracting Q
Dating the Gospels
John
The Gospels as Documents
From Aramaic to Greek
New Approaches
Community Authorship
Paul and the Rest
The Apocryphal Gospels
Thomas and His Twin
Chapter 5. The Poet in Performance: The Composition of the Quran
The Revelations
Biography and the Quran
Approaching the Quran
The Cultural Environment
Writing and the Quran
Writing in Arabia
Oral Poetry and the Quran
Muhammad, Poet and Performer
The Bible in the Quran
The Mantic Seer
The Oral Performance
A Change in Style
The Writing Down of the Quran
Other Possibilities
Uthman or Later?
In Sum
Chapter 6. The Book in Mortal Hands
The Word Made Flesh: Books and Bookmaking in the Ancient World
Scrolls and Books
Searching the Scriptures
From Notebooks to Books
The Christians Adopt the Codex
Toward a Standard Edition?
The Shape of the Page: Chapter and Verse
Dividing the Text
Marking the Text
Suras and Ayas
The Sacramental Text
Sefer Torah: Torahs and Their Arks
Washing Their Hands of the Christians
A Matter of Etiquette: The Book in Our Hands
Chapter 7. In Other Words
The Loss of God's Tongue
Targums and Methurgemans
Scripture for the Hellenized: The Septuagint
Origen: Multitasking the Bible
From Old Latin to the Vulgate
Hebraica Veritas and the Latin West
The Polyglot
Enter the Humanists
Translating the Untranslatable Quran
Chapter 8. Picturing the Word
The Rabbis and the Second Commandment
Adorning and Illustrating the Hebrew Bible
Christian Images
Icons and Iconoclasm
The Bible with Pictures
Printing with Pictures
The Reformation and Images
The Word Unpictured: Islam and Images
Drawing in the Book
Chapter 9. Giving Voice to the Word
Talking Back to God
Reading through the Torah
The Scripture in Church
Praying the Quran
The Scripture as Libretto
The Cantorial Scripture
The Divine Office
The Art of Qira
Epilogue. Three Books, Side by Side
Glossary
List of Illustrations
Index

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