How the Bible Became a Book Textualization in Ancient Israel

Name: How the Bible Became a Book Textualization in Ancient Israel
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ISBN: 9780521536226

ISBN-10: 0521536227

ISBN-13: 9780521536226

Edition: 2005

Authors: William M. Schniedewind

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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 was written and evolved into sacred Scripture. Written for general readers as well as scholars, the book provides rich insight into how these texts came to possess the authority of 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. Hb ISBN (2004) 0-521-82946-1

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/22/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Figures


Preface


Abbreviations



How the Bible Became a Book



The Numinous Power of Writing



Writing and the State



Writing in Early Israel



Hezekiah and the Beginning of Biblical Literature



Josiah and the Text Revolution



How the Torah Became a Text



Writing in Exile



Scripture in the Shadow of the Temple



Epilogue


Suggested Further Reading


Notes


Index