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The formation of the Hebrew Bible : a new reconstruction / David M. Carr.

Author/creator Carr, David McLain, 1961-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxii, 524 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Variants and evidence of oral-written transmission of Israelite literature -- Documented cases of transmission history, Part 1: two cases -- Documented cases of transmission history, Part 2: broader trends -- From documented growth to method in reconstruction of growth -- The Hasmonean period: finalization of scripture in an increasingly Greek world -- The Hellenistic period up to the Hasmonean monarchy: priestly and Diaspora textuality -- Bible for exiles: the reshaping of stories about Israel's earliest history -- Textuality under empire: reflexes of Neo-Assyrian domination -- From the neo-Assyrian to Hasmonean periods: preliminary conclusions and outlook -- Early highland states and evidence for literary textuality in them -- Royal psalms: locating Judah and Israel's early pro-royal literature -- Proverbs and Israel's early oral-written curriculum -- Other supposedly Solomonic books: Song of Songs and Qohelet -- Other Biblical texts potentially from the early monarchal period -- Toward a new picture of early monarchal texts in the Hebrew Bible.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 493-502) and indexes.
LCCN 2010044479
ISBN9780199742608
ISBN019974260X

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