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The making of the Bible : from the first fragments to sacred scripture / Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter ; translated by Peter Lewis.

by Schmid, Konrad, 1965- author.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.

Bible -- History.

Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

9780674248380 (hardcover) :

0674248384 (hardcover) :

440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Introduction: From early fragments to sacred scripture -- The Jewish and Christian bibles -- Written culture and literary production in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah -- Emerging Judaism and biblical texts of the Babylonian and Persian periods -- Texts and the use of scripture in Judaism of the Hellenistic and Roman periods -- The texts of ancient Judaism in early Christianity -- The formation of the Christian Bible and the emergence of other literature in the Christian tradition -- The making of the Jewish Bible and the creation of the Mishnah and the Talmud -- The impact of the Jewish and Christian bibles.

The Bible as we know it today is best understood as a process, one that begins in the tenth century BCE. In this revelatory account, a world-renowned scholar of Hebrew scripture joins a foremost authority on the New Testament to write a new biography of the Book of Books, reconstructing Jewish and Christian scriptural histories, as well as the underappreciated contest between them, from which the Bible arose. Recent scholarship has overturned popular assumptions about Israel's past, suggesting, for instance, that the five books of the Torah were written not by Moses but during the reign of Josiah centuries later. The sources of the Gospels are also under scrutiny. Konrad Schmid and Jens Schroter reveal the long, transformative journeys of these and other texts en route to inclusion in the holy books. The New Testament, the authors show, did not develop in the wake of an Old Testament set in stone. Rather the two evolved in parallel, in conversation with each other, ensuring a continuing mutual influence of Jewish and Christian traditions. Indeed, Schmid and Schrter argue that Judaism might not have survived had it not been reshaped in competition with early Christianity. A remarkable synthesis of the latest Old and New Testament scholarship, The Making of the Bible is the most comprehensive history yet told of the world's best-known literature, revealing its buried lessons and secrets.

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