Contextualizing Israel's sacred writings : ancient literacy, orality, and literary production /
edited by Brian B. Schmidt.
- x, 374 páginas ; 24 centímetros.
- Ancient Israel and its literature ; number 22 .
"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.
Levantine literacy ca. 1000-750 BCE / Literacy in the Negev of the late monarchial period / Scribal curriculum during the First Temple period: epigraphic Hebrew and biblical evidence / Memorializing conflict: toward an Iron Age "shadow" history of Israel's earliest literature / Let the stones speak! Document production by Iron Age West Semitic scribal institutions and the question of biblical sources / Orality, textuality, and memory: the state of biblical studies / 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 place of Ezra-Nehemiah in scholarly narratives of scripturalization / 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" / Brian B. Schmidt -- André Lemaire -- Nadav Naʼaman -- Christopher A. Rollston -- Brian B. Schmidt -- Jessica Whisenant -- David M. Carr -- Robert D. Miller II -- Raymond F. Person Jr. -- Frank H. Polak -- Elsie Stern -- James M. Bos -- Seth L. Sanders -- William M. Schniedewind -- Joachim Schaper. Introduction /