Jews and the Bible

Jean-Christophe Attias is Professor of Medieval Jewish Thought at the École pratique des hautes études, Sorbonne, Paris. His previous publications in English (co-written with Esther Benbassa) are: Israël, the Impossible Land (Stanford University Press, 2003); The Jews and Their Future: A Conversation on Jewish Identities (Zed Books, 2004); and The Jew and the Other (Cornell University Press, 2004).

"This beautifully written (and translated) monograph casts profound doubt on attempts to simplistically characterize the terms Jews and Bible or to view the relationship between them one dimensionally . . . Highly recommended."—L. J. Greenspoon, Choice "Professor Attias, a significant French intellectual and scholar of medieval Judaism, has written the first book that explores broadly the place of the Bible in Jewish culture throughout the ages. Engagingly written, this is an important initial foray into this broad and significant topic that raises important questions concerning the place of the Bible within contemporary Jewish culture."—Marc Brettler, Brandeis University "A study of the Jews' peculiar relationships with the Bible, Jean-Christophe Attias's The Jews and the Bible is an excellent companion to the recent crop of books on the Bible's construction....[They] tell us how the Bible came to be, Attias focuses on how it came to be regarded."—Jay Michaelson, The Forward