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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Main Author: Millard, Alan (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2005
In: 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)
How the Bible became a book (New York [u.a.] : Cambridge, 2004) (Millard, Alan)
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