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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
David McLain Carr |
ISBN: | 9780199742608 019974260X |
OCLC Number: | 772586171 |
Description: | xii, 524 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Variants and evidence of oral-written transmission of Israelite literature -- Documented cases of transmission history, Part 1: two cases -- Documented cases of transmission history, Part 2: broader trends -- From documented growth to method in reconstruction of growth -- The Hasmonean period: finalization of scripture in an increasingly Greek world -- The Hellenistic period up to the Hasmonean monarchy: priestly and Diaspora textuality -- Bible for exiles: the reshaping of stories about Israel's earliest history -- Textuality under empire: reflexes of Neo-Assyrian domination -- From the neo-Assyrian to Hasmonean periods: preliminary conclusions and outlook -- Early highland states and evidence for literary textuality in them -- Royal psalms: locating Judah and Israel's early pro-royal literature -- Proverbs and Israel's early oral-written curriculum -- Other supposedly Solomonic books: Song of Songs and Qohelet -- Other Biblical texts potentially from the early monarchal period -- Toward a new picture of early monarchal texts in the Hebrew Bible. |
Responsibility: | David M. Carr. |
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Carrs bold attempt to challenge one of the most practiced methodologies in biblical studies is very welcome. It functions as a starting point for discussions about refining a methodology that has been criticized almost throughout its history. * Juha Pakkala, Marginalia, * Read more...
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