Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible

Name: Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible
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ISBN: 9780674032545

ISBN-10: 0674032543

ISBN-13: 9780674032545

Edition: 2007

Authors: Karel van der Toorn, K. van der Toorn

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We think of the Hebrew Bible as the Book--and yet it was produced by a largely nonliterate culture in which writing, editing, copying, interpretation, and public reading were the work of a professional elite. The scribes of ancient Israel are indeed the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and in this book Karel van der Toorn tells their story for the first time. His book considers the Bible in very specific historical terms, as the output of the scribal workshop of the Second Temple active in the period 500-200 BCE . Drawing comparisons with the scribal practices of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, van der Toorn clearly details the methods, the assumptions, and the material means of…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Karel van der Toorn is President of the University of Amsterdam .



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Books that are not Books: Writing in the World of the Bible



Authorship in Antiquity: Practice and Perception



In Search of the Scribes, I: Comparative Evidence



In Search of the Scribes, II: The Biblical Evidence



Making Books: Scribal Modes of Text Production



The Teaching of Moses: Scribal Culture in the Mirror of Deuteronomy



Manufacturing the Prophets: The Book of Jeremiah as Scribal Artifact



Inventing Revelation: The Scribal Construct of Holy Writ



Constructing the Canon: The Closure of the Hebrew Bible


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index