The intrepid Harold Bloom once called the New Testament the greatest act of plagiarism in the history of literature. That might sound hyperbolic; but if you include, along with the Hebrew Scriptures (the Tanakh, in Jewish usage), the vast Jewish inter-testamental literature not included in the Jewish canon of the Bible (“outside books,” as the rabbis called them), it’s a (...)
April 20, 2012
Books
Holy Envy
The Jewish Annotated New Testament Edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler Oxford University Press, $35, 700 pp.
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