TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cross,Frank Moore
TI  - From epic to canon: history and literature in ancient Israel 
SN  - 9780801865336
AV  - BS1171 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Judaism
KW  - History
KW  - To 70 A.D
N1  - 1 and indexes; part 1. Epic traditions of early Israel: Kinship and covenant in ancient Israel ; Traditional narrative and the reconstruction of early Israelite institutions ; Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob : sacral traditions and early Israelite history --; part 2. Priestly lore and its Near Eastern background: The "olden gods" in ancient Near Eastern creation myths and in Israel ; The priestly tabernacle and the Temple of Solomon --; part 3. Studies in the structure of Hebrew verse: The prosody of Lamentations 1 and the Psalm of Jonah ; Toward a history of Hebrew prosody --; part 4. Return to Zion: A reconstruction of the Judean restoration ; Samaria and Jerusalem in the era of restoration --; part 5. Qumran and the history of the biblical text: The fixation of the text of the Hebrew Bible ; The stabilization of the canon of the Hebrew Bible --; part 6. Typology and historical method: Alphabets and pots : reflections on typological method in the dating of artifacts; 2
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