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Deuteronomy and the Emergence of Textual Authority in Jeremiah

By: Nathan Mastnjak

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Deuteronomy and the Emergence of Textual Authority in Jeremiah

By: Nathan Mastnjak

Was there a shift in the perspective on Deuteronomy's authority in Jeremiah? Nathan Mastnjak analyzes the various ways that the book of Jeremiah interpreted Deuteronomy. By examining the nature of literary allusion and textual authority, he traces a development in the perspective on Deuteronomy from the earliest traditions in Jeremiah to the latest. - back of book.

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Before the Scrolls

A Material Approach to Israel's Prophetic Library

By: Nathan Mastnjak

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Before the Scrolls

A Material Approach to Israel's Prophetic Library

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Before the Scrolls: A Material Approach to Israel's Prophetic Library traces the media history of the biblical prophetic corpus in order to propose a material approach to biblical literature. Though often ignored, the realia of a text's form, format, production, and material substance have profound influence on the meaning of the text. The literature of the Bible was not initially written as discrete books with determined beginnings, middles, and ends. Before the Scrolls argues instead that biblical compositions of length, such as the great prophetic books Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, were initially written on loosely organized collections of multiple short papyrus scrolls. Only later in the Hellenistic era were these compositions edited, organized, and copied into the longer book-scrolls known from the Dead Sea. The shift from prophetic library to linear prophetic book-scroll represents a transformation in material medium that had significant effects on that literature. This material approach to the prophetic corpus suggests novel solutions to classic problems in the field such as the relationship between the MT and LXX of Jeremiah and the between First and Second Isaiah. The failure to account for the materiality of the prophetic corpus has led scholarship to occasionally ask the wrong questions of these compositions and has blinded it to the vital role that Hellenistic bookmakers played in the creation of the Bible as we know it"--

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The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony

By: Nathan MacDonald

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The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony

By: Nathan MacDonald

How did the Jerusalem high priests go from being cultic servants in the sixth century BCE to assuming political supremacy at some point during the third or second century? The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony examines how the conditions were created for the priesthood's rise to power by examining the most important ideological texts for the high priests: the description of the wilderness tabernacle and the instructions for the ordination ritual found in the Biblical books of Exodus and Leviticus. Although neglected by many modern readers, who often find them technical and repetitive, the tabernacle accounts excited considerable interest amongst early scribes and readers, as is evidenced by the survival of them in no fewer than four versions. Untangling this intricate compositional history helps shed light on how these chapters in the Pentateuch shaped-and were shaped by-the perception of the priesthood's powers and competencies during the Persian and early Hellenistic periods. The hierarchy that is developed is more nuanced and multifaceted than previously appreciated, with Israelite artisans, community leaders, Levites and women incorporated into a complex vision of society. The ordination ritual was also transformed by scribal elites during the Persian period, appearing in no fewer than five variant forms as the role of the high priesthood and its relationship to other groups was negotiated. Using a broad, plural methodological approach that incorporates insights from sociology, ritual studies, textual and literary criticism, early interpretation, manuscript studies, and philology, Nathan MacDonald's study shines new light on the historical development, theology, and ideology of priestly texts in the Pentateuch.

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Deuteronomy and the Emergence of Textual Authority in Jeremiah

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Deuteronomy and the Emergence of Textual Authority in Jeremiah

Deuteronomy and the Emergence of Textual Authority in Jeremiah

Before the Scrolls

Before the Scrolls

Before the Scrolls

Before the Scrolls

The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony

The Making of the Tabernacle and the Construction of Priestly Hegemony

Deuteronomy and the Emergence of Textual Authority in Jeremiah

Deuteronomy and the Emergence of Textual Authority in Jeremiah

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