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The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles

Scribal Works in an Oral World

By: Raymond F. Person,Raymond F. Person (Jr.)

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The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles

Scribal Works in an Oral World

By: Raymond F. Person,Raymond F. Person (Jr.)

This volume reexamines and reconstructs the relationship between the Deuteronomistic History and the book of Chronicles, building on recent developments such as the Persian -period dating of the Deuteronomistic History, the contribution of oral traditional studies to understanding the production of biblical texts, and the reassessment of Standard Biblical Hebrew and Late Biblical Hebrew. These new perspectives challenge widely held understandings of the relationship between the two scribal works and strongly suggest that they were competing historiographies during the Persian period that nevertheless descended from a common source. This new reconstruction leads to new readings of the literature.

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Society of Biblical Lit

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1589835174

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9781589835177

Scribal Memory and Word Selection

Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible

By: Raymond F. Person Jr.

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Scribal Memory and Word Selection

Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible

By: Raymond F. Person Jr.

What were ancient scribes doing when they copied a manuscript of a literary work? This question is especially problematic when we realize that ancient scribes preserved different versions of the same literary texts. In Scribal Memory and Word Selection: Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Raymond F. Person Jr. draws from studies of how words are selected in everyday conversation to illustrate that the same word-selection mechanisms were at work in scribal memory. Using examples from manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, Person provides new ways of understanding the cognitive-linguistic mechanisms at work during the composition/transmission of texts. Person reveals that, while our modern perspective may consider textual variants to be different literary texts, from the perspective of the ancient scribes and their audiences, these variants could still be understood as the same literary text.

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SBL Press

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1628373342

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9781628373349

Second Zechariah and the Deuteronomic School

By: Raymond F. Person, Jr.

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Second Zechariah and the Deuteronomic School

By: Raymond F. Person, Jr.

Person concludes that the Deuteronomic school's redactional activity continued into the postexilic period. In Part I, he first critiques the commonly-held conclusion that the Deuteronomic school ceased in the Exile. He then presents evidence that suggests that the Deuteronomic redactions of the Deuteronomic History and Jeremiah continued into the postexilic period. this evidence is of two types: (1) Deuteronomic phraseology in the postexilic additions found in the MT and (2) the themes of return and restoratin as vaticinia ex eventu. In Part II, the conclusion that the Detueronomic school continued in the postexilic period is bolstered with additional evidence in the form of Deuteronomic phraseology in the redactional material of Second Zechariah. adapting the methodology applied by J Philip Hyatt and others to Jeremiah, Person argues that Zechariah was redacted by the Deuteronomic school with the addition of the Deuteronomic prose in Zechariah 9-14. In Part III, Person comments on the possible social setting of the Deuteronomic school in postexilic Yehud as well as its theology in this setting.

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241

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A&C Black

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0567017923

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9780567017925

The Kings – Isaiah and Kings – Jeremiah Recensions

By: Raymond F. Person

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The Kings – Isaiah and Kings – Jeremiah Recensions

By: Raymond F. Person

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

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136

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110800845

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9783110800845

In Conversation with Jonah

Conversation Analysis, Literary Criticism and the Book of Jonah

By: Raymond F. Person, Jr.

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In Conversation with Jonah

Conversation Analysis, Literary Criticism and the Book of Jonah

By: Raymond F. Person, Jr.

The author analyses the various conversations that occur between the characters in the Jonah narrative and the 'conversation' that occurs between the text and its readers. The study opens with an introduction to the field of conversation analysis, with a focus on one feature of conversation analysis-that a fundamental structure in the organization of language is adjacency pairs (for example, question/answer and invitation/refusal). Person notes how complex the adjacency pairs in the Jonah narrative are, and shows how they contribute to the narrative elements of plot, characterization, atmosphere and tone. He then refines reader-response theory (especially that of Wolfgang Iser) and provides a reader-response commentary on the book. The study ends with an analysis of the history of the interpretation of the book of Jonah, demonstrating how the structures of adjacency pairs in the narrative have been successfully and unsuccessfully interpreted.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567525546

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9780567525543

From Conversation to Oral Tradition

A Simplest Systematics for Oral Traditions

By: Raymond F Person

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From Conversation to Oral Tradition

A Simplest Systematics for Oral Traditions

By: Raymond F Person

This book argues that many of the most prominent features of oral epic poetry in a number of traditions can best be understood as adaptations or stylizations of conversational language use, and advances the claim that if we can understand how conversation is structured, it will aid our understanding of oral traditions. In this study that carefully compares the "special grammar" of oral traditions to the "grammar" of everyday conversation as understood in the field of conversation analysis, Raymond Person demonstrates that traditional phraseology, including formulaic language, is an adaptation of practices in turn construction in conversation, such as sound-selection of words and prosody, and that thematic structures are adaptations of sequence organization in talk-in-interaction. From this he concludes that the "special grammar" of oral traditions can be understood as an example of institutional talk that exaggerates certain conversational practices for aesthetic purposes and that draws from cognitive resources found in everyday conversation. Person’s research will be of interest to conversation analysts as well as literary scholars, especially those interested in ancient and medieval literature, the comparative study of oral traditions and folklore, and linguistic approaches to literature. This volume lays the groundwork for further interdisciplinary work bridging the fields of literature and linguistics.

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Routledge

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1317327535

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Scribal Memory and Word Selection

Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible

By: Raymond F. Person Jr.

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Text Criticism of the Hebrew Bible

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From Conversation to Oral Tradition

A Simplest Systematics for Oral Traditions

By: Raymond F Person

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A Simplest Systematics for Oral Traditions

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In Conversation with Jonah

Conversation Analysis, Literary Criticism and the Book of Jonah

By: Raymond F. Person, Jr.

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Conversation Analysis, Literary Criticism and the Book of Jonah

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The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles

The Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles

Scribal Memory and Word Selection

Scribal Memory and Word Selection

Second Zechariah and the Deuteronomic School

Second Zechariah and the Deuteronomic School

The Kings – Isaiah and Kings – Jeremiah Recensions

The Kings – Isaiah and Kings – Jeremiah Recensions

In Conversation with Jonah

In Conversation with Jonah

From Conversation to Oral Tradition

From Conversation to Oral Tradition

Scribal Memory and Word Selection

Scribal Memory and Word Selection

From Conversation to Oral Tradition

From Conversation to Oral Tradition

In Conversation with Jonah

In Conversation with Jonah

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