Modern scholar.

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Lecture 1. Bible, Hebrew scriptures, Old Testament: the nature of the collection -- Lecture 2. Who wrote the Bible?: authors, editors, and scrolls -- Lecture 3. Archaeology and the Bible -- Lecture 4. Origins of the World, humanity, and the People of Israel: Genesis and Exodus -- Lecture 5. Codes of Biblical law: Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy -- Lecture 6. History and identity: Joshua and Judges -- Lecture 7. Portrayal of history: Samuel and Kings -- Lecture 8: Temple and sacrifice: Leviticus, Numbers, and Ezekiel -- Lecture 9: The prophets and their writings -- Lecture 10. Words of wisdom: Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes -- Lecture 11. God and humanity in the Hebrew Bible -- Lecture 12. Handing down the Bible: the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Lecture 13. The Hebrew Bible in the New Testament: Jewish interpretation: Midrash -- Lecture 14. The Bible and Western culture

The Hebrew Bible, known to Jews as the Tanakh and to Christians as the Old Testament, is the basis of our tradition of monotheism as well as the main avenue by which the ethics and teachings of the Hebrew spirit entered Western civilization. Eminent scholar Lawrence H. Schiffman discusses how that collection came into being and how it was passed down and interpreted through the ages

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