How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel. By William M. Schniedewind. Pp. xiv + 257. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. isbn 0 521 82946 1. £25/28
Rather than literary style or form, content, or theology, Schniedewind takes the availability and use of writing as his starting point. He argues that ‘biblical literature was written down largely in the eighth through the sixth century B.C.E.’ (p. 17), with exiled Jehoiachin's circle in Babylo...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 509-512 |
| Review of: | How the Bible became a book (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005) (Millard, Alan)
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| Summary: | Rather than literary style or form, content, or theology, Schniedewind takes the availability and use of writing as his starting point. He argues that ‘biblical literature was written down largely in the eighth through the sixth century B.C.E.’ (p. 17), with exiled Jehoiachin's circle in Babylon preserving that material and influencing the final forms of Kings and Jeremiah. Scribes already worked in administration for David and Solomon, and kept annals, but ‘writing would not have been … used for either the preservation or the dissemination of culture’ then (p. 61). The few and paltry examples of Hebrew writing from the tenth century are cited in support. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli119 |