Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible  -  Toorn, Karel van der

KORTE INHOUD

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 the Second Temple active in the period 5...
2007 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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2007 Uitgever: Harvard University Press 416 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0674024370 ISBN-13: 9780674024373