TY - BOOK ID - 5349847 TI - How the Bible became a book : textualization in ancient Israel PY - 2004 SN - 0521829461 0521536227 9786611112936 0511337795 0511336616 1139130579 0511337264 0511499132 1281112933 051133835X 9780511338359 9780511252662 0511252668 9780511499135 9780521829465 9781281112934 9780521536226 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University press DB - UniCat KW - Bible KW - History. KW - 221.01 KW - Oud Testament: inleiding KW - 221.01 Oud Testament: inleiding KW - Biblia KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Religion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5349847 AB - For the past two hundred years biblical scholars have increasingly assumed that the Hebrew Bible was largely written and edited in the Persian and Hellenistic periods. As a result, the written Bible has dwelled in an historical vacuum. Recent archaeological evidence and insights from linguistic anthropology, however, point to the earlier era of the late-Iron Age as the formative period for the writing of biblical literature. How the Bible Became a Book combines these recent archaeological discoveries in the Middle East with insights culled from the history of writing to address how the Bible first came to be written down and then became sacred Scripture. This book provides rich insight into why these texts came to have authority as Scripture and explores why Ancient Israel, an oral culture, began to write literature, challenging the assertion that widespread literacy first arose in Greece during the fifth century BCE. ER -