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Deuteronomy and the material transmission of tradition
Title
Deuteronomy and the material transmission of tradition / by Mark Lester.
ISBN
9004691804
9789004691803
9789004691858
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
Physical Description
xx, 307 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary
Deuteronomy and the inscribed texts depicted within it are often called "books." Moreover, its treatment of writing has earned it a prominent place in historical accounts of the religion of ancient Israel and Judah. Neither Deuteronomy nor its text-artifacts, however, are books in any conventional sense of the term. This interdisciplinary study reorients the analysis of Deuteronomic textuality around the materiality, visuality, and rhetoric of ancient rather than modern media. It argues that the Deuteronomic composition adapts the media aesthetics of ancient treaty tablets and monumental inscriptions to a story that is itself transformed into an artifact of the past.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 06, 2024
Series
Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, v. 198
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-296) and indexes.
Contents
Introduction: Deuteronomy and the Book
ch. 1. From discourse to artifact
ch. 2. Esarhaddon's Succession Treaty as Text and Object
ch. 3. Monuments and interaction: the case of Kulamuwa's portal inscription
ch. 4. The material imaginary of the Deuteronomic composition
ch. 5. Textual landscapes and the poetics of proximity
Epilogue: The Deuteronomic composition and the movement of culture.
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