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Title Contextualizing Israel's sacred writings : ancient literacy, orality, and literary production / edited by Brian B. Schmidt
Published Atlanta, Georgia : SBL Press, 2015
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Series Ancient Israel and its literature ; number 22
Ancient Israel and its literature ; no. 22.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 4, 2015)
SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject Literacy -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- Congresses
Oral tradition -- Congresses
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Sacred Writings.
Literacy -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Oral tradition
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Schmidt, Brian B., editor.
ISBN 9781628371192
1628371196