![]() ![]() ![]() His books have been translated into Hebrew, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, Korean, and French. He has authored the bestselling Who Wrote the Bible? as well as The Disappearance of God, The Hidden Book in the Bible, Commentary on the Torah, The Bible with Sources Revealed, The Bible Now, and The Exile and Biblical Narrative. He is the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia and Katzin Professor of Jewish Civilization Emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He participated in the City of David Project archaeological excavations of biblical Jerusalem. ![]() About the Author Richard Elliott Friedman earned his doctorate at Harvard, was a visiting fellow at Cambridge and Oxford and a senior fellow of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem. At bottom, the question that all are addressing is: in what way(s) is the study of the Bible different from the study of other literature? Their answers, it should come as no surprise, all have to do with the Bibles special life as sacred literature. In this seminal work they raise questions of conception, technique, and audience, treating both the Bibles authors and editors. Thus begins this merger of a stellar group of scholars of both literary and historical perspectives on the Hebrew Bible: Robert Alter, Baruch Halpern, Shemaryahu Talmon, Jacob Milgrom, Nahum Sarna, and Jack Miles, and edited by Richard Elliott Friedman. Book Synopsis The study of the Bible is at a vital juncture. ![]()
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