How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel (Paperback)
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Short Description for How the Bible Became a Book Dates the writing of biblical literature to the late-Iron Age, challenging previous theories of literacy.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 01 September 2005
- Format: Paperback 272 pages
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- Categories: History Of Religion | Biblical Studies & Exegesis | Judaism
- ISBN 13: 9780521536226 ISBN 10: 0521536227
- Sales rank: 313,551
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Full description for How the Bible Became a Book
For the past two hundred years biblical scholars have increasingly assumed that the Hebrew Bible was largely written and edited in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. As a result, the written Bible has dwelled in an historical vacuum. Recent archaeological evidence and insights from linguistic anthropology, however, point to the earlier era of the late-Iron Age as the formative period for the writing of biblical literature. How the Bible Became a Book combines these 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. This book 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, challenging the assertion that widespread literacy first arose in Greece during the fifth century BCE.
