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How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel
(For the past two hundred years Biblical scholars have usu...)
For the past two hundred years Biblical scholars have usually assumed that the Hebrew Bible was essentially written and edited in the Persian and Hellenistic periods (the fifth-through-second centuries BCE) Recent archaeological evidence and insights from linguistic anthropology, however, point to the earlier era of the late-Iron Age (eighth-through-sixth centuries BCE) as the formative period for the writing of biblical literature. How the Bible Became a Book combines recent archaeological discoveries in the Middle East with insights culled from the history of writing to address how the Bible was written and evolved into sacred Scripture. Written for general readers as well as scholars, the book provides rich insight into how these texts came to possess the authority of Scripture and explores why Ancient Israel, an oral culture, began to write literature. It describes an emerging literate society in ancient Israel that challenges the assertion that literacy first arose in Greece during the fifth century BCE. William M. Schneidewind is Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He is the author of The Word of God in Transition (Sheffield Academic Press, 1995) and Society and the Promise to David.
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By William M. Schniedewind - A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature
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Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.
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How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel by William M. Schniedewind (2004-05-10)
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The Word of God in Transition: From Prophet to Exegete in the Second Temple Period (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)
( The Chronicler distinguishes between "traditional proph...)
The Chronicler distinguishes between "traditional prophets" and "inspired messengers", and thereby highlights a radical transition in the meaning of the "word of God" which takes place in the post-exilic period. The Chronicler summarizes his perspective in 2 Chron. 36.16, saying that Israel rejected "his prophets", "the messengers of God", and "his word" (i.e. Torah). This distinction is reflected in the forms and functions of prophetic speech in the books of Chronicles. Thus, the prophets speak to the king, and the inspired messengers (e.g. priests, levites) speak to the people. The prophets interpret narrative events for the king; they explain how God acts. The inspired messengers exhort the people, admonishing them how they should act. The prophets' speeches usually do not use any kind of inspiration formula, but the inspired messengers' speeches are prefaced with possession formulas. These possession formulas are not typical of classical prophecy and mark the rise of a new kind of prophecy, namely, the inspired interpretation of texts. These inspired messengers are thus forerunners of the inspired interpreters of scripture in Qumran, early Christianity and Judaism.
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A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)
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More than simply a method of communication shared by a common people, the Hebrew language was always an integral part of the Jewish cultural system and, as such, tightly interwoven into the lives of the prophets, poets, scribes, and priests who used it. In this unique social history, William Schniedewind examines classical Hebrew from its origins in the second millennium BCE until the Rabbinic period, when the principles of Judaism as we know it today were formulated, to view the story of the Israelites through the lens of their language. Considering classical Hebrew from the standpoint of a writing system as opposed to vernacular speech, Schniedewind demonstrates how the Israelites’ long history of migration, war, exile, and other momentous events is reflected in Hebrew’s linguistic evolution. An excellent addition to the fields of biblical and Middle Eastern studies, this fascinating work brings linguistics and social history together for the first time to explore an ancient culture.
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A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture, and Literature by William M. Schniedewind (2007-08-30)
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The Word of God in Transition: From Prophet to Exegete in the Second Temple Period (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) by William M. Schniedewind (2009-11-01)
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A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature by William M. Schniedewind (2007-07-02)
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A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library) by William M. Schniedewind (2013-12-10)
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A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature
(A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language o...)
A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Semitic culture. The Ugaritic language and literature was a precursor to Canaanite and serves as one of our most important resources for understanding the Old Testament and the Hebrew language. Special emphasis is placed on contextualization of the Ugartic language and comparison to ancient Hebrew as well as Akkadian.
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William Schniedewind
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He has a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, an Master of Arts in Historical Geography of Ancient Israel, from Jerusalem University College, and an Master of Arts He serves on the editorial boards for the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, the Journal of Biblical Literature, and Tel Aviv. He was a trustee and the secretary of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research. An article in The Christian Century refers to Schniedewind as having demonstrated in his book How the Bible Became a Book his knowledge of the archaeology of ancient Israel, the history of the Hebrew language, and the development of historical literature based on the Bible.
Schniedewind is listed in the 2007 Distinguished Lecturer Series Speaker Biographies in the Dead Sea Scroll exhibition at the San Diego Natural History Museum.
Schniedewind was the director of the Qumran Visualization Project (QVP), which created a virtual reality model of ancient Qumran under the auspices of University of California, Los Angeles"s Experiential Technologies Center (which also has notable projects for 2nd Temple Jerusalem, Islamic Jerusalem, and Ancient Rome).
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How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel
(For the past two hundred years Biblical scholars have usu...)
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A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature
(A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language o...)
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A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)
( More than simply a method of communication shared by a ...)
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The Word of God in Transition: From Prophet to Exegete in the Second Temple Period (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)
( The Chronicler distinguishes between "traditional proph...)
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By William M. Schniedewind - A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
- How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization in Ancient Israel
- How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel by William M. Schniedewind (2004-05-10)
- A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture, and Literature by William M. Schniedewind (2007-08-30)
- The Word of God in Transition: From Prophet to Exegete in the Second Temple Period (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) by William M. Schniedewind (2009-11-01)
- A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature by William M. Schniedewind (2007-07-02)
- A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library) by William M. Schniedewind (2013-12-10)
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How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel
