The Aramaic Transition and the Redaction of the Pentateuch
Virtually all scholars recognize that the Pentateuch was redacted during the Persian period but that its current form highlights the inconsistencies of its sources rather than attempting to harmonize or mediate them. In order to understand this phenomenon, it is important to reconsider the scribal c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Scholar's Press
[2017]
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| In: |
Journal of Biblical literature
Year: 2017, Volume: 136, Issue: 2, Pages: 249-268 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Pentateuch, Bible. Pentateuch
/ Iran (Antiquity)
/ Aramaic language
/ Text history
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Hebrew language
B Research personnel B Mythology B Scholars B Aramaic language |
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| Summary: | Virtually all scholars recognize that the Pentateuch was redacted during the Persian period but that its current form highlights the inconsistencies of its sources rather than attempting to harmonize or mediate them. In order to understand this phenomenon, it is important to reconsider the scribal culture of the Persian Empire with special attention to the Aramaic Transitionthe widespread training of scribes in the Aramaic language, script, and the ancient classics transmitted in this mediumand its role in the promotion of Persian imperial mythology. In the context of the Aramaic Transition, the incorporation of dissonant sources in the Pentateuch emerges as a hermeneutical statement on the role of these sources and the social universe that produced them. The retextualization of these Hebrew-language traditions in Aramaic script provided an interface with intellectual trends that applied equally across all of the precursor sources utilized by the redactors of the Pentateuch, irrespective of their surface dissonances. |
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| ISSN: | 1934-3876 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Biblical literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.15699/jbl.1362.2017.3127 |