Who really wrote the Bible : the story of the scribes / William M. Schniedewind.
2024
BS480 .S36 2024
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Title
Who really wrote the Bible : the story of the scribes / William M. Schniedewind.
ISBN
9780691233178 (hardcover)
0691233179 (hardcover)
9780691233666 (ebook)
0691233179 (hardcover)
9780691233666 (ebook)
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2024]
Copyright
©2024
Language
English
Description
xiii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
BS480 .S36 2024
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1401654989
Summary
"Schniedewind draws on ancient inscriptions, archaeology, and anthropology, as well as a close reading of the biblical text itself, to trace the communal origin of biblical literature. Scribes were educated through apprenticeship rather than in schools. The prophet Isaiah, for example, has his "disciples"; Elisha has his "apprentice." This mode of learning emphasized the need to pass along the traditions of a community of practice rather than to individuate and invent. Schniedewind shows that it is anachronistic to impose our ideas about individual authorship and authors on the writing of the Bible. Ancient Israelites didn't live in books, he writes, but along dusty highways and byways. Who Really Wrote the Bible describes how scribes and their apprentices actually worked in ancient Jerusalem and Judah." -- Adapted from dust jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-330) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : A new approach to the Bible
Scribes and their apprentices : communities at work
Part one. Hebrew scribal communities. The beginning under Egyptian dominion
In the service of the state
Refugees from the Samarian scribal office
Part two. The beginnings of the Bible. New scribal communities
The prophetic scribal community
Scribes among the people of the land
Women in the professions
Priestly scribal communities : Jerusalem and the periphery
Part three. A scribal community survives. Exiled scribal communities : the stories of Jeremiah and Ezekiel
Working with the Samaritans
Ezra and Nehemiah : Persian scribal communities.
Scribes and their apprentices : communities at work
Part one. Hebrew scribal communities. The beginning under Egyptian dominion
In the service of the state
Refugees from the Samarian scribal office
Part two. The beginnings of the Bible. New scribal communities
The prophetic scribal community
Scribes among the people of the land
Women in the professions
Priestly scribal communities : Jerusalem and the periphery
Part three. A scribal community survives. Exiled scribal communities : the stories of Jeremiah and Ezekiel
Working with the Samaritans
Ezra and Nehemiah : Persian scribal communities.
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