Rachael

Engaging, Informative and accesible

Revisado: 10-21-22 El oyente recibió este título gratis

Full disclosure: I have been provided a review copy by the author, I am also approaching this from the lens of an ex-Christian, and current Jewish conversion student.

Audio and special note: First the one small negative. I docked one star from performance overall the quality is excellent so this complaint might be minor, there's a few instances where the volume and softness are varied, one where the the reader pauses and clears his throat, and possibly (unless it was a glitch) once instance where audio is accidentally looped back on itself. These are very minor in the grand scheme of things and Bob Harvey's overall reading is crisp professional and precise and imbued with emotion when recounting personal opinions or anecdotes.

I only mention these because I am very sensitive to consistent audio quality when listening to an audio book and very little things can take me out of the audio.

Special note: While discussing translation Harvey opts to pronounce the tetragrammatron to remove any theological bias while discussing the mechanics of translation itself. This is not a judgement certainly the Harveys have more right to judge the appropriateness of doing that in an academic context than I do. This is just a heads up.

Review proper: As stated above I am a conversion student who comes from a Christian background. As such I have spent a lot of time examining and discussing the very issues this book is centered around: I learned a lot. For every thing that retread familiar ground there was five or six more new items for me. I was taught Christian scripture through a pro-Jewish lens while I'm grateful my earliest teachers did not try to impart hateful ideas and tropes not being taught the prevalent readings of the texts throughout most of Christian history left me ill prepared to to realize what some of the less obvious ones were.

I thought I knew pretty much every bombshell to avoid (some I've learned the hard way by setting them off) with members of my new community, not by a long shot. I also learned a lot of new things about both Christian and Jewish history. So I'm sure anyone would find a lot of value in this book.

The book is interesting engaging and well presented covering history, translation, holidays, and more. Very recommended.

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