| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Making the Bible Modern: Children's Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America. By Penny Schine Gold. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xviii, 269 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3667-2.)
The Bible is the shared text that laid the foundation for both Jewish and Christian cultures and also decisively shaped the ideological motifs of American society. In her study of Jewish Bible stories for children, Penny Schine Gold explores some of the most significant transformations of Jewish culture in America, as evidenced by the recasting of the tradition's most central text.	1
Gold begins her book by outlining the role of the Torah (the Pentateuch) in Jewish culture and offers a useful discussion of the ways that Talmud study came to take precedence within rabbinic Judaism. She then turns to the renewed emphasis upon the Bible in the modern period, as the text emerged as common ground for Jews and Christians, first during the European Jewish Enlightenment and continuing within the context of democratic America, as part of the quest for a society based on the principles of universalism and shared morality. The early chapters set the stage for the centerpiece of the book in which Gold closely examines various biblical tales, used primarily in the Reform movement's supplementary schools.	. . .

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