edited by Brian B. Schmidt
SBL Press, 2015
eISBN: 978-1-62837-119-2 | Cloth: 978-1-62837-120-8 | Paper: 978-1-62837-118-5
Library of Congress Classification BM538.L58C66 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 221.6

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

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


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