How the Bible became a book: the textualization of ancient Israel
For the past two hundred years biblical scholars have increasingly assumed that the Hebrew Bible was largely written and edited in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. As a result, the written Bible has dwelled in an historical vacuum. Recent archaeological evidence and insights from linguistic anth...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2004.
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| In: | Year: 2004 |
| Reviews: | 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 (2005) (Millard, Alan)
[Rezension von: SCHNIEDEWIND, WILLIAM M., How the Bible Became a Book: Textualization of Ancient Israel] (2005) (Hoppe, Leslie J., 1944 -) |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible
B Bible History B Bible ; History |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780521829465 |
| Summary: | For the past two hundred years biblical scholars have increasingly assumed that the Hebrew Bible was largely written and edited in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. As a result, the written Bible has dwelled in an historical vacuum. Recent archaeological evidence and insights from linguistic anthropology, however, point to the earlier era of the late-Iron Age as the formative period for the writing of biblical literature. How the Bible Became a Book combines these recent archaeological discoveries in the Middle East with insights culled from the history of writing to address how the Bible first came to be written down and then became sacred Scripture. This book provides rich insight into why these texts came to have authority as Scripture and explores why Ancient Israel, an oral culture, began to write literature, challenging the assertion that widespread literacy first arose in Greece during the fifth century BCE. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511499132 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511499135 |