Contextualizing Israel's Sacred Writings: Ancient Literacy, Orality, and Literary Production

by Brian Schmidt and Brian B. Schmidt

Book Overview

This collection of essays by researchers and internationally recognized scholars addresses the emergence of literary production in the southern Levant. Essays focus on both the development of extensive works as the consequential interplay between orality and literacy and on such productions as prelude to the creation of lengthy compositions in ancient Israel and Judah. These lengthy compositions either represent the most likely progenitors of writings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162837120X
• ISBN13: 9781628371208
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: SBL Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"