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Contextualizing Israel's sacred writings : ancient literacy, orality, and literary production
Title
Contextualizing Israel's sacred writings : ancient literacy, orality, and literary production / edited by Brian B. Schmidt.
ISBN
9781628371185
1628371188
9781628371192
1628371196
9781628371208
162837120X
Publication
Atlanta, Georgia : SBL Press, [2015]
Physical Description
x, 374 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes
"The present volume has its origins in the International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World ... held in Ann Arbor in the Summer of 2012"--Introduction
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 09, 2015
Series
Ancient Israel and its literature ; number 22
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Introduction / Brian B. Schmidt
Levantine literacy ca. 1000-750 BCE / André Lemaire
Literacy in the Negev of the late monarchial period / Nadav Naʼaman
Scribal curriculum during the First Temple period: epigraphic Hebrew and biblical evidence / Christopher A. Rollston
Memorializing conflict: toward an Iron Age "shadow" history of Israel's earliest literature / Brian B. Schmidt
Let the stones speak! Document production by Iron Age west Semitic scribal institutions and the question of biblical sources / Jessica Whisenant
Orality, textuality, and memory: the state of biblical studies / David M. Carr
The performance of oral trdition in ancient Israel / Robert D. Miller II
Text criticism as a lens for understanding the transmission of ancient texts in their oral environments / Raymond F. Person Jr.
Oral substratum, language usage, and thematic flow in the Abraham-Jacob narrative / Frank H. Polak
Royal letters and Torah scrolls: the place of Ezra-Nehemiah in scholarly narratives of scripturalization / Elsie Stern
The "literarization" of the biblical prophecy of doom / James M. Bos
What if there aren't any empirical models for Pentateuchal criticism? / Seth L. Sanders
Scripturalization in ancient Judah / William M. Schniedewind
Hebrew culture at the "interface between the written and the oral" / Joachim Schaper.
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