Jewish craftsmanship

Author: Gu Xiaoming
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Publish Date: 1996-08-01
Features: The Old Testament is a collection of ancient myths and legends of the Hebrew nation, compiled around the 9th to 8th centuries BC. It records various laws made between the legendary Hebrews and God, the deeds and words of the ancestors and important historical figures of the Hebrew nation, as well as related poetry, wisdom books, dramatic stories, and other sacred texts, thus becoming the canon of Judaism. When Christianity rose, it adopted the Old Testament as the first part of its scriptures and designated the New Testament, compiled from the late 1st century to the second half of the 2nd century, as the second part of Christian scriptures. From then on, the Bible, as a religious classic, became widely known to the world through the global spread of Christianity and the worldwide dispersion of the Jewish people.
The Youshui River basin has been the land where the ancestors of the Tujia people have lived and thrived since ancient times, with a rich and complex cultural heritage. Moreover, due to the region's long-standing influence from the ruling ethnic culture, the phenomenon of multi-ethnic cultural integration is particularly prominent. The author of this book has conducted multiple field investigations in the three districts of Youshui, based on which they have analyzed the overall cultural status of the three districts and, using a wealth of vivid and rich materials, have explored aspects such as multi-ethnic cultural integration, coexistence of different historical forms, cultural integration and standardization, the survival and functional decline of indigenous culture, and cultural variation and adaptation. From this, they have summarized several basic characteristics of the regional overall cultural pattern and the fundamental laws of ethnic cultural variation. The book takes the small to illustrate the large, presents its insights in an accessible manner, and offers compelling arguments, making it worth reading.