Writing the Bible :
Writing the Bible : scribes, scribalism and script /
edited by Philip R. Davies and Thomas Römer.
- 1 online resource (ix, 213 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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- Bible world (London, England) .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Ilimilku of Ugarit : copyist or creator? / Memory, writing, authority : the place of the scribe in Greek polytheistic practice (sixth to fourth centuries BCE) / The dissemination of written texts / Genesis : a composition for construing a homeland of the imagination for elite scribal circles or for educating the illiterate? / The "Prophets" as scriptural collection and scriptural prophecy during the Second Temple period / From prophet to scribe : Jeremiah, Huldah and the invention of the book / Instituting through writing : the letters of Mordecai in Esther 9:20-28 / The scribe and his class : Ben Sira on rich and poor / Some scribal features of the thematic commentaries from Qumran / Efficacious writing : the inscription of the rosette on the High Priest's forehead and the Egyptian reception of Exodus 28 / The prose writer ([syngrapheus]) and the cultures of author and scribes : the examples of Galen and the anonymous author of Luke-Acts / Peter and his secretary in Pseudo-Clement / On the danger of writing according to Origen / Adrian Curtis -- Dominique Jaillard -- Philip R. Davies -- Diana V. Edelman -- Christophe Nihan -- Thomas Römer -- Jean-Daniel Macchi -- Walter J. Houston -- George J. Brooke -- Charlotte Touati -- Claire Clivaz -- Frédéric Amsler -- Eric Junod.
For many years it has been recognized that the key to explaining the production of the Bible lies in understanding the profession, the practice and the mentality of scribes in the ancient Near East, classical Greece and the Greco-Roman world. In many ways, however, the production of the Jewish literary canon, while reflecting wider practice, constitutes an exception because of its religious function as the written 'word of God', leading in turn to the veneration of scrolls as sacred and even cultic objects in themselves. Writing the Bible brings together the wide-ranging study of all major aspects of ancient writing and writers. The essays cover the dissemination of texts, book and canon formation, and the social and political effects of writing and of textual knowledge. Central issues discussed include the status of the scribe, the nature of 'authorship', the relationship between copying and redacting, and the relative status of oral and written knowledge. The writers examined include Ilimilku of Ugarit, the scribes of ancient Greece, Ben Sira, Galen, Origen and the author of Pseudo-Clement.
9781844657322 (ebook)
Bible--Authorship.
Scribes.
Written communication--History.--Mediterranean Region
Oral tradition--History.--Mediterranean Region
Electronic books.
BS519 / .W75 2013
220.6/6
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Ilimilku of Ugarit : copyist or creator? / Memory, writing, authority : the place of the scribe in Greek polytheistic practice (sixth to fourth centuries BCE) / The dissemination of written texts / Genesis : a composition for construing a homeland of the imagination for elite scribal circles or for educating the illiterate? / The "Prophets" as scriptural collection and scriptural prophecy during the Second Temple period / From prophet to scribe : Jeremiah, Huldah and the invention of the book / Instituting through writing : the letters of Mordecai in Esther 9:20-28 / The scribe and his class : Ben Sira on rich and poor / Some scribal features of the thematic commentaries from Qumran / Efficacious writing : the inscription of the rosette on the High Priest's forehead and the Egyptian reception of Exodus 28 / The prose writer ([syngrapheus]) and the cultures of author and scribes : the examples of Galen and the anonymous author of Luke-Acts / Peter and his secretary in Pseudo-Clement / On the danger of writing according to Origen / Adrian Curtis -- Dominique Jaillard -- Philip R. Davies -- Diana V. Edelman -- Christophe Nihan -- Thomas Römer -- Jean-Daniel Macchi -- Walter J. Houston -- George J. Brooke -- Charlotte Touati -- Claire Clivaz -- Frédéric Amsler -- Eric Junod.
For many years it has been recognized that the key to explaining the production of the Bible lies in understanding the profession, the practice and the mentality of scribes in the ancient Near East, classical Greece and the Greco-Roman world. In many ways, however, the production of the Jewish literary canon, while reflecting wider practice, constitutes an exception because of its religious function as the written 'word of God', leading in turn to the veneration of scrolls as sacred and even cultic objects in themselves. Writing the Bible brings together the wide-ranging study of all major aspects of ancient writing and writers. The essays cover the dissemination of texts, book and canon formation, and the social and political effects of writing and of textual knowledge. Central issues discussed include the status of the scribe, the nature of 'authorship', the relationship between copying and redacting, and the relative status of oral and written knowledge. The writers examined include Ilimilku of Ugarit, the scribes of ancient Greece, Ben Sira, Galen, Origen and the author of Pseudo-Clement.
9781844657322 (ebook)
Bible--Authorship.
Scribes.
Written communication--History.--Mediterranean Region
Oral tradition--History.--Mediterranean Region
Electronic books.
BS519 / .W75 2013
220.6/6