Surpassing wonder
the invention of the Bible and the Talmuds
by Donald Harman Akenson
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Surpassing Wonder illuminates the ancient Hebrew scriptures, the Christian "New Testament," and the Talmuds of the Rabbis. Donald Harman Akenson takes a radical historical look at these founding documents. Studying them and the surrounding scholarship, Akenson has arrived at a new - and galvanizing - understanding. He argues persuasively that these founding texts are best understood if they are each regarded as having been written by one author-editor.
He then brings the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds into clear focus, as no other writer has done. Using images that range from tractor mechanics to Winnie-the-Pooh, Akenson explains how Western civilization was created not by the Greeks of Athens or the patricians of Rome but by the desert worshippers of Yahweh.
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Surpassing wonder: the invention of the Bible and the Talmuds
1998, Harcourt Brace
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0151004188 9780151004188
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Surpassing wonder: the invention of the Bible and the Talmuds
1998, McGill-Queen's University Press
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