Author: Marc Zvi Brettler
Title: How to Read the Bible
Description: Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2005. 8vo. 384 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Blue cloth covered boards. Dust Jacket Very Good+. Argues that contemporary readers can only understand the ancient Hebrew Scripture by knowing more about the culture that produced it. This title surveys representative biblical texts from different genres to illustrate how modern scholars have taught us to read these texts. ISBN: 9780827607750. Provenance: from the Estate of Judy Stone (1924 –2017), The San Francisco Chronicle’s movie critic who for two decades was a passionate and articulate advocate for the world of cinema outside Hollywood. Judy Stone started at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1961, putting in 10 years as editor of the Datebook section. She began reviewing films for the paper in 1971, favoring arthouse films. She was the youngest of four politically minded children whose eldest brother was the great reporter and gadfly I. F. Stone. She won the Novikoff Award given for "enhancing the public's appreciation of world cinema.” Among her publications are “The Mystery of B. Traven” and "Eye on the World,” a collection of her interviews with filmmakers from the 1960s to the 1990s. .
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Title: How to Read the Bible
Description: Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2005. 8vo. 384 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Blue cloth covered boards. Dust Jacket Very Good+. Argues that contemporary readers can only understand the ancient Hebrew Scripture by knowing more about the culture that produced it. This title surveys representative biblical texts from different genres to illustrate how modern scholars have taught us to read these texts. ISBN: 9780827607750. Provenance: from the Estate of Judy Stone (1924 –2017), The San Francisco Chronicle’s movie critic who for two decades was a passionate and articulate advocate for the world of cinema outside Hollywood. Judy Stone started at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1961, putting in 10 years as editor of the Datebook section. She began reviewing films for the paper in 1971, favoring arthouse films. She was the youngest of four politically minded children whose eldest brother was the great reporter and gadfly I. F. Stone. She won the Novikoff Award given for "enhancing the public's appreciation of world cinema.” Among her publications are “The Mystery of B. Traven” and "Eye on the World,” a collection of her interviews with filmmakers from the 1960s to the 1990s. .
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Price: US$ 85.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 18-8977
- Book number: 18-8977
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