Before the Bible : the liturgical body and the formation of scriptures in early Judaism / Judith H. Newman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newman, Judith H. (Judith Hood), 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Canon.

Bible.

Prayer--Judaism.

Prayer.

Judaism--Liturgy--History.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 178 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This text reveals the landscape of scripture in an era prior to the crystallization of the Tanakh, the Jewish Bible, and before the canonization of the Christian Bible. Most accounts of the formation of the Hebrew Bible trace the origins of scripture through source-critical excavation of the archaeological 'tell' of the Bible or the text-critical analysis of the scribal hand on manuscripts, but the discoveries in the Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding of scripture formation.

Contents:

Shaping the scribal self through prayer and paideia : the example of Ben Sira

Confessing in exile : the reception and composition of Jeremiah in (Daniel) and Baruch

The eucharistic body of Paul and the ritualization of 2 Corinthians

The Hodayot and the formative process of performing scripture.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 18, 2018).

ISBN:

0-19-087350-7

0-19-021223-3