The Closed Book av Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg

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<p><b>A groundbreaking reinterpretation of early Judaism, during the millennium before the study of the Bible took center stage</b><br><br>Early Judaism is often described as the religion of the book par excellence¿a movement built around the study of the Bible and steeped in a culture of sacred bookishness that evolved from an unrelenting focus on a canonical text. But in <i>The Closed Book</i>, Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg argues that Jews didn¿t truly embrace the biblical text until nearly a thousand years after the Bible was first canonized. She tells the story of the intervening centuries during which even rabbis seldom opened a Bible and many rabbinic authorities remained deeply ambivalent about the biblical text as a source of sacred knowledge.<br><br>Wollenberg shows that, in place of the biblical text, early Jewish thinkers embraced a form of biblical revelation that has now largely disappeared from practice. Somewhere between the fixed transcripts of the biblical Written Tora