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Contextualizing Israel's sacred writings : ancient literacy, orality, and literary production / edited by Brian B. Schmidt.

Contributor(s): Schmidt, Brian B [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Ancient Israel and its literature: no. 22.Publisher: Atlanta, Georgia : SBL Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: x, 374 pages : map ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781628371185; 1628371188Subject(s): Literacy -- Religious aspects -- Judaism -- Congresses | Oral tradition -- Congresses | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- CongressesDDC classification: 221.6 LOC classification: BM538.L58 | C66 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Brian B. Schmidt -- Levantine literacy ca. 1000-750 BCE / André Lemaire -- Literacy in the Negev of the late monarchical period / Nadav Naʼaman -- Scribal curriculum during the First Temple period: epigraphic Hebrew and biblical evidence / Christopher A. Rollston -- Memorializing conflict: toward an Iron Age "shadow" history of Israel's earliest literature / Brian B. Schmidt -- Let the stones speak! Document production by Iron Age West Semitic scribal institutions and the question of biblical sources / Jessica Whisenant -- Orality, textuality, and memory: the state of biblical studies / David M. Carr -- The performance of oral tradition in ancient Israel / Robert D. Miller II -- Text criticism as a lens for understanding the transmission of ancient texts in their oral environments / Raymond F. Person Jr. -- Oral substratum, language usage, and thematic flow in the Abraham-Jacob narrative / Frank H. Polak -- Royal letters and Torah scrolls: the place of Ezra-Nehemiah in scholarly narratives of scripturalization / Elsie Stern -- The "literarization" of the biblical prophecy of doom / James M. Bos -- What if there aren't any empirical models for Pentateuchal criticism? / Seth L. Sanders -- Scripturalization in ancient Judah / William M. Schniedewind -- Hebrew culture at the "interface between the written and the oral" / Joachim Schaper.

"The present volume has its origins in the International Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World ... held in Ann Arbor in the Summer of 2012"--Introduction

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Brian B. Schmidt -- Levantine literacy ca. 1000-750 BCE / André Lemaire -- Literacy in the Negev of the late monarchical period / Nadav Naʼaman -- Scribal curriculum during the First Temple period: epigraphic Hebrew and biblical evidence / Christopher A. Rollston -- Memorializing conflict: toward an Iron Age "shadow" history of Israel's earliest literature / Brian B. Schmidt -- Let the stones speak! Document production by Iron Age West Semitic scribal institutions and the question of biblical sources / Jessica Whisenant -- Orality, textuality, and memory: the state of biblical studies / David M. Carr -- The performance of oral tradition in ancient Israel / Robert D. Miller II -- Text criticism as a lens for understanding the transmission of ancient texts in their oral environments / Raymond F. Person Jr. -- Oral substratum, language usage, and thematic flow in the Abraham-Jacob narrative / Frank H. Polak -- Royal letters and Torah scrolls: the place of Ezra-Nehemiah in scholarly narratives of scripturalization / Elsie Stern -- The "literarization" of the biblical prophecy of doom / James M. Bos -- What if there aren't any empirical models for Pentateuchal criticism? / Seth L. Sanders -- Scripturalization in ancient Judah / William M. Schniedewind -- Hebrew culture at the "interface between the written and the oral" / Joachim Schaper.

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