Scribal culture and the making of the Hebrew Bible /

Toorn, K. van der,

Scribal culture and the making of the Hebrew Bible / [print] Karel van der Toorn. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2007. - x, 401 pages ; 24 cm.



Books that are not books: writing in the world of the Bible -- Authorship in antiquity: practice and perception -- In search of the scribes, I: comparative evidence -- In search of the scribes, II: the biblical evidence -- Making books: scribal modes of text production -- The teaching of Moses: scribal culture in the mirror of Deuteronomy -- Manufacturing the prophets: the book of Jeremiah as scribal artifact -- Inventing revelation: the scribal construct of holy writ -- Constructing the canon: the closure of the Hebrew Bible.



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Bible.--Old Testament.

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