Für diesen Artikel ist leider kein Bild verfügbar.

Writing the Bible

Scribes, Scribalism and Script

Thomas Römer, Philip Davies (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2013
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-908049-56-8 (ISBN)

Titel ist leider vergriffen;
keine Neuauflage

Artikel merken

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.

Thomas Romer is Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is also Professor of Biblical Studies at the College de France, Paris. Philip R. Davies is Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of On the Origins of Judaism (Acumen, 2011) and editor of Yours Faithfully: Virtual Letters from the Bible (Acumen, 2004).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.2013
Verlagsort	Sheffield
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	594 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10	1-908049-56-1 / 1908049561
ISBN-13	978-1-908049-56-8 / 9781908049568
Zustand	Neuware