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How the Bible Became a Book

How the Bible Became a Book

The Textualization of Ancient Israel

by William M. Schniedewind
Paperback
Publication Date: 22/08/2005

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For the past two-hundred years Biblical scholars have usually assumed that the Hebrew Bible was mostly written and edited in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. Recent archaeological evidence and insights from linguistic anthropology, however, point to the earlier era of the late-Iron Age (eighth-though-sixth centuries BCE) as the formative period for the writing of biblical literature. How the Bible Became a Book combines 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. It 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. It describes an emerging literate society in ancient Israel that challenges the assertion that literacy first arose in Greece during the fifth century BCE.
ISBN:
9780521536226
9780521536226
Category:
Biblical studies & exegesis
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
22-08-2005
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
226x152x18mm
Weight:
0.37kg

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