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ancient literacy, orality, and literary production

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Brian B. Schmidt
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"Situated historically between the invention of the alphabet, on the one hand, and the creation of ancient Israel's sacred writings, on the other, is the emergence of literary production in the ancient Levant. In this timely collection of essays by an international cadre of scholars, the dialectic between the oral and the written, the intersection of orality with literacy, and the advent of literary compositions are each explored as a prelude to the emergence of what would become the biblical writings of ancient Israel and Judah. Contributors also examine a range of relevant topics, including scripturalization, the compositional dimensions of orality and textuality as they engage biblical poetry, prophecy, and narrative along with their antecedents, and the ultimate autonomy of the written in early Israel"--

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SBL Press
Language
English
Pages
374

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Oral tradition, Schriftlichkeit, Judaism, Criticism, interpretation, Mündliche Überlieferung, Textproduktion, Bibel, Bible, Congresses, Literacy, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., o. t.

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Table of 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 tradition 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.

Edition 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Atlanta
Series
Ancient Israel and its literature -- number 22, Ancient Israel and its literature -- no. 22.

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Dewey Decimal Class
221.6
Library of Congress
BM538.L58 C66 2015, BM538

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Pagination
x, 374 pages
Number of pages
374

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OL28412340M
ISBN 10
1628371188, 162837120X, 1628371196
ISBN 13
9781628371185, 9781628371192, 9781628371208
LCCN
2015019542
OCLC/WorldCat
911617915

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