Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible by Van Der Toorn, Karel - 2009

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Harvard University Press. Very Good+. 2009. Paperback. 0674032543 . Card cover bright, minutely creased in corners; Pages a touch marked on fore-edge, but generally clean w/ no annotation; Binding tight. Cover illustration shows details of the Isaiah Manscript, c.100 BCE on parchment. ; 6 x 9.25"; 401 pages .

Harvard University Press, 2009 8vo (22 cm), 418 pp. Publisher's laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "We think of the Hebrew Bible as the Book -- and yet it was produced by a largely non literate culture in which writing, editing, copying, interpretation, and public reading were the work of a professional elite. The scribes of ancient Israel are indeed the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and in this book Karel van der Toorn tells their story for the first time. His book considers the Bible in very specific historical terms, as the output of the scribal workshop of the Second Temple active in the period 500-200 BCE. Drawing comparisons with the scribal practices of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, van der Toorn clearly details the methods, the assumptions, and the material means of production that gave rise to biblical texts; then he brings his observations to bear on two important texts, Deuteronomy and Jeremiah. Traditionally seen as the copycats of antiquity, the scribes emerge here as… Read More

Paperback / softback. New. The scribes of ancient Israel are the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and this book tells their story for the first time. Drawing comparisons with the scribal practices of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, van der Toorn details the methods, assumptions, and material means that gave rise to biblical texts.

Harvard Univ Pr, 2009. Paperback. New. 416 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. The scribes of ancient Israel are the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and this book tells their story for the first time. Drawing comparisons with the scribal practices of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, van der Toorn details the methods, assumptions, and material means that gave rise to biblical texts.