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Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible

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 | #323315 in Books |  2009-04-15 |  2009-03-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.24 x1.06 x6.07l,1.29 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||41 of 42 people found the following review helpful.| Scribes Not Authors, Scrolls Not Books|By Edward G. Simmons|With the exception of the book of Daniel, the Hebrew Bible, says Van der Toorn, was the product of streams of tradition recorded and edited by scribes who were Levites connected to the Temple in Jerusalem. These Levites descended from the priesthood in Israel that had migrated to Judah after the Assyrian conquest an| |Every decade we see the publication of only one or two works of scholarly excellence that fundamentally advance the understanding of the Hebrew Bible and change the intellectual contours of the biblical field. Karel van der Toorn has accomplished this rarest

We think of the Hebrew Bible as the Book--and yet it was produced by a largely nonliterate 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 ...

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