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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schmidt, Brian B., editor.

Series:

Ancient Israel and its literature ; Number 22.

Ancient Israel and Its Literature ; Number 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bible.

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

Literacy.

Oral tradition--Congresses.

Oral tradition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, Georgia : SBL Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An essential resource exploring orality and literacy in the pre-Hellenistic southern Levant and the Hebrew Bible Situated historically between the invention of the alphabet, on the one hand, and the creation of ancient Israel's sacred writings, on the other, is the emergence of literary production in the ancient Levant. In this timely collection of essays by an international cadre of scholars, the dialectic between the oral and the written, the intersection of orality with literacy, and the advent of literary composition are each explored as a prelude to the emergence of biblical writing in ancient Israel. Contributors also examine a range of relevant topics including scripturalization, the compositional dimensions of orality and textuality as they engage biblical poetry, prophecy, and narrative along with their antecedents, and the ultimate autonomy of the written in early Israel. The contributors are James M. Bos, David M. Carr, André Lemaire, Robert D. Miller II, Nadav Na'aman, Raymond F. Person Jr., Frank H. Polak, Christopher A. Rollston, Seth L. Sanders, Joachim Schaper, Brian B. Schmidt, William M. Schniedewind, Elsie Stern, and Jessica Whisenant. Features Addresses questions of literacy and scribal activity in the Levant and Negev Articles examine memory, oral tradition, and text criticism Discussion of the processes of scripturalization

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; LEVANTINE LITERACY CA. 1000-750 BCE; Literacy in the Negev in the Late Monarchical Period; Scribal Curriculum during the First Temple Period; Memorializing Conflict; Let the Stones Speak!; Orality, Textuality, and Memory; The Performance of Oral Tradition in Ancient Israel; Text Criticism as a Lens for Understanding the Transmission of Ancient Texts in their Oral Environments ; Oral Substratum, Language Usage, and Thematic Flow in the Abraham-Jacob Narrative ; Royal Letters and Torah Scrolls; The "Literarization" of the Biblical Prophecy of Doom

What if There Aren't Any Empirical Models for Pentateuchal Criticism?Scripturalization in Ancient Judah; Hebrew Culture at the"Interface between the Written and the Oral""; Subject Index; Ancient Sources Index

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62837-119-6

OCLC:

915343575