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The Rise of Scripture

by Paul Nadim Tarazi

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: OCABS Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2.7 cm

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Those who experience the Bible as a living text understand that Scripture possesses a life and power all its own. Written by human hands, texts become sacred when they resonate with ultimate truths encountered in the direst of human circumstances. Paul Nadim Tarazi’s The Rise of Scripture offers a cogent argument for the particulars of how it is the Bible as we have it became Scripture. Avoiding futile speculation over Israelite textual and ethnic origins, Tarazi lays bare the Bible’s strategic defense against hellenistic urban hegemony over the fertile clay and desert environs of western Asia. With the help of biblical Hebrew—a “concocted language,” according to Tarazi—scribes wrote and shaped oral and textual materials into a manifesto of cultural resistance in response to the ethnocentric arrogance of the alien occupation. The successful accomplishment of such a defense relied upon a kind of leveling of the playing field, in which the writers of the Bible came to throw all their own false idols into the fire, resulting in the production of the most scathing collective self-examination in human history. It is the thesis of this book that the reading and teaching of Scripture brings human beings together in the barren wilderness of authentic human existence in obedience to, and under the care of the ultimate Shepherd, the God of Scripture.
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  • Author

    Paul Nadim Tarazi

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    OCABS Press

  • Published

    October 2017

  • Weight

    691g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781601910387

  • ISBN-10

    160191038X

  • Eden Code

    4543766

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