The Jewish Bible

"A carefully plotted, awe-awakening journey through the evolution and adaptation of the Jewish Bible within a variety of cultures and settings. . . . Enrapturing. . . . Bibliophiles will find much here that fascinates. . . . The Jewish Bible is a fascinating look at a work whose materiality is shown to be inseparable from its meaning."—Michelle Anne Schlingler, Foreword Reviews

"Brilliant and fascinating. . . . In The Jewish Bible, Stern masterfully synthesizes this scholarship, offering a chronological history of Jewish sacred books from Qumran to the JPS Tanakh."—Adam Kirsch, Jewish Review of Books

"The Jewish Bible: A Material History will give you a great sense of the gift ancient and medieval scribes and scholars bequeathed to those who came after them."—Association of Mormon Letters

"A significant contribution. The most complete description we have of the material history of the Bible in Jewish contexts."—Adam Shear, author of The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1167-1900

"The whole notion of studying the history of the Bible as a material artifact is an innovation."—Raymond Scheindlin, author of A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood

"Stern's pioneering narrative of the material forms of the biblical text opens a new panorama in the history of the 'book of books.' Tracing its multiple platforms, including scroll, codex, manuscript, print, Hebrew and in translation, Stern argues that meaning and context are inseparable elements for the reception of the Bible over time."—Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University