Iakerson Sh. [Review:] David Stern. The Jewish Bible. A Material History. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2017. 303 pp. // Manuuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 26 No. 2 December 2020. P. 88—90.
For many centuries, the Hebrew Bible has undoubtedly
been the main book of Judaism and the richest source of
creative inspiration for Jewish people. The text of the
Bible forms the foundation of Jewish liturgy as the Bible
is weekly read in Synagogues (I mean weekly portions
of the Torah text and fragments of the Prophets
(haftarot)). When we habitually describe Jewish people
as the People of the Book, this description really does
reflect the significance of the Bible for the whole of Jewish
civilization [1]. Furthermore, the study of this great
monument of writing has long become an independent
science...
On May 22, 2019, at the meeting of the Academic Council of the IOM RAS, V.V. Shchepkin will submit his lecture New Sources about the History of the Southern Kuril Islands in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century.
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