How The Bible Became A Book and A Primer on Ugaritic

How The Bible Became A Book

Name: How The Bible Became A Book
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Author: Los Angeles) William M. Schniedewind (university Of California
ISBN: 9780521536226

The Textualization of Ancient Israel

by Los Angeles) William M. Schniedewind (university Of California

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272 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
15.3 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

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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.