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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schmidt, Brian B., editor.

Series:

Ancient Israel and its literature ; no. 22.

Ancient Israel and its literature ; number 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament.

Literacy--Religious aspects--Judaism--Congresses.

Literacy.

Oral tradition--Congresses.

Oral tradition.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Congresses.

Bible.

Literacy--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 374 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, Georgia : SBL Press, [2015]

Contents:

Introduction / Brian B. Schmidt

Levantine literacy ca. 1000-750 BCE / André Lemaire

Literacy in the Negev of the late monarchial 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.

Notes:

"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.

ISBN:

9781628371185

1628371188

9781628371208

162837120X

OCLC:

911617915

Publisher Number:

40025221115