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Transforming Literature into Scripture : Texts as Cult Objects at Ninevah and Qumran.
Transforming Literature into Scripture examines how the early textual traditions of ancient Israel - stories, laws, and rituals - were transformed into sacred writings. By comparing evidence from two key collections from antiquity - the royal library at Nineveh and the biblical manuscripts from the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2014.
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| Colección: | BibleWorld.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Transforming Literature into Scripture examines how the early textual traditions of ancient Israel - stories, laws, and rituals - were transformed into sacred writings. By comparing evidence from two key collections from antiquity - the royal library at Nineveh and the biblical manuscripts from the Dead Sea Scrolls - the book traces the stabilisation of textual traditions in the ancient Near East towards fixed literary prototypes. The study presents a new methodology which enables the quantification, categorisation and statistical analysis of texts from different languages, writing systems, |
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| Notas: | Index of Subjects. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-220) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781317544982 1317544986 9781315729121 1315729121 9781317544975 1317544978 9781317544968 131754496X |