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Scribal culture and the making of the Hebrew Bible /

The scribes of ancient Israel are indeed the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and this book tells their story for the first time. Drawing comparisons with the scribal practices of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, van der Toorn details the methods, assumptions, and material means that gave rise to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Toorn, K. van der (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Edición:First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Books that are not books: writing in the world of the Bible
  • Authorship in antiquity: practice and perception
  • In search of the scribes, I: comparative evidence
  • In search of the scribes, II: the biblical evidence
  • Making books: scribal modes of text production
  • The teaching of Moses: scribal culture in the mirror of Deuteronomy
  • Manufacturing the prophets: the book of Jeremiah as scribal artifact
  • Inventing revelation: the scribal construct of holy writ
  • Constructing the canon: the closure of the Hebrew Bible.