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Society and the Promise to David

The Reception History of 2 Samuel 7:1-17

By: William M. Schniedewind

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Society and the Promise to David

The Reception History of 2 Samuel 7:1-17

By: William M. Schniedewind

In the second book of Samuel, the prophet Nathan tells King David that God will give to him and his descendants a great and everlasting kingdom. In this study Schniedewind looks at how this dynastic Promise has been understood and transmitted from the time of its first appearance at the inception of the Hebrew monarchy until the dawn of Christianity. He shows in detail how, over the centuries, the Promise grew in importance and prestige. One measure of this growing importance was the Promise's ability to coax new readers into fresh interpretations.

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0195352068

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Who Really Wrote the Bible

The Story of the Scribes

By: William M. Schniedewind

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Who Really Wrote the Bible

The Story of the Scribes

By: William M. Schniedewind

A groundbreaking new account of the writing of the Hebrew Bible Who wrote the Bible? Its books have no bylines. Tradition long identified Moses as the author of the Pentateuch, with Ezra as editor. Ancient readers also suggested that David wrote the psalms and Solomon wrote Proverbs and Qohelet. Although the Hebrew Bible rarely speaks of its authors, people have been fascinated by the question of its authorship since ancient times. In Who Really Wrote the Bible, William Schniedewind offers a bold new answer: the Bible was not written by a single author, or by a series of single authors, but by communities of scribes. The Bible does not name its authors because authorship itself was an idea enshrined in a later era by the ancient Greeks. In the pre-Hellenistic world of ancient Near Eastern literature, books were produced, preserved, and passed on by scribal communities. Schniedewind draws on ancient inscriptions, archaeology, and anthropology, as well as a close reading of the biblical text itself, to trace the communal origin of biblical literature. Scribes were educated through apprenticeship rather than in schools. The prophet Isaiah, for example, has his “disciples”; Elisha has his “apprentice.” This mode of learning emphasized the need to pass along the traditions of a community of practice rather than to individuate and invent. Schniedewind shows that it is anachronistic to impose our ideas about individual authorship and authors on the writing of the Bible. Ancient Israelites didn’t live in books, he writes, but along dusty highways and byways. Who Really Wrote the Bible describes how scribes and their apprentices actually worked in ancient Jerusalem and Judah.

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Princeton University Press

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0691233179

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A Primer on Ugaritic

Language, Culture and Literature

By: William M. Schniedewind,Joel H. Hunt

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A Primer on Ugaritic

Language, Culture and Literature

By: William M. Schniedewind,Joel H. Hunt

A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Semitic culture. The Ugaritic language and literature was a precursor to Canaanite and serves as one of our most important resources for understanding the Old Testament and the Hebrew language. Special emphasis is placed on contextualization of the Ugaritic language and comparison to ancient Hebrew as well as Akkadian. The book begins with a general introduction to ancient Ugarit, and the introduction to the various genres of Ugaritic literature is placed in the context of this introduction. The language is introduced by genre, beginning with prose and letters, proceeding to administrative, and finally introducing the classic examples of Ugaritic epic. A summary of the grammar, a glossary, and a bibliography round out the volume.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139466984

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A Social History of Hebrew

Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period

By: William M. Schniedewind

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A Social History of Hebrew

Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period

By: William M. Schniedewind

Considering classical Hebrew from the standpoint of a writing system as opposed to vernacular speech, Schniedewind demonstrates how the Israelites' long history of migration, war exile, and other momentous events is reflected in Hebrew's linguistic evolution.

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Yale University Press

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0300176686

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9780300176681

The Finger of the Scribe

How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible

By: William M. Schniedewind

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The Finger of the Scribe

How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible

By: William M. Schniedewind

One of the enduring problems in biblical studies is how the Bible came to be written. Clearly, scribes were involved. But our knowledge of scribal training in ancient Israel is limited. William Schniedewind explores the unexpected cache of inscriptions discovered at a remote, Iron Age military post called Kuntillet 'Ajrud to assess the question of how scribes might have been taught to write. Here, far from such urban centers as Jerusalem or Samaria, plaster walls and storage pithoi were littered with inscriptions. Apart from the sensational nature of some of the contents-perhaps suggesting Yahweh had a consort-these inscriptions also reflect actual writing practices among soldiers stationed near the frontier. What emerges is a very different picture of how writing might have been taught, as opposed to the standard view of scribal schools in the main population centers.

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Oxford University Press

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0190052473

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The Word of God in Transition

From Prophet to Exegete in the Second Temple Period

By: William M. Schniedewind

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The Word of God in Transition

From Prophet to Exegete in the Second Temple Period

By: William M. Schniedewind

The Chronicler distinguishes between "traditional prophets" and "inspired messengers," and thereby highlights a radical transition in the meaning of the "word of God" which takes place in the post-exilic period. The Chronicler summarizes his perspective in 2 Chron. 36.16, saying that Israel rejected "his prophets," "the messengers of God," and "his word" (i.e. Torah). This distinction is reflected in the forms and functions of prophetic speech in the books of Chronicles. Thus, the prophets speak to the king, and the inspired messengers (e.g. priests, levites) speak to the people. The prophets interpret narrative events for the king; they explain how God acts. The inspired messengers exhort the people, admonishing them how they should act. The prophets' speeches usually do not use any kind of inspiration formula, but the inspired messengers' speeches are prefaced with possession formulas. These possession formulas are not typical of classical prophecy and mark the rise of a new kind of prophecy, namely, the inspired interpretation of texts. These inspired messengers are thus forerunners of the inspired interpreters of scripture in Qumran, early Christianity and Judaism.>

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A&C Black

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1850755507

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The Septuagint

What It Is and Why It Matters

By: Greg Lanier,William A. Ross

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The Septuagint

What It Is and Why It Matters

By: Greg Lanier,William A. Ross

A Thorough, Accessible Introduction to the Greek Translation of the Old Testament Scholars and laypeople alike have stumbled over Bible footnotes about the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament. Many wonder, What is it? Why do some verses differ from the Hebrew text? Is it important to Scripture? In this introduction to the Septuagint, Gregory R. Lanier and William A. Ross clarify its origin, transmission, and language. By studying its significance for both the Old and New Testaments, believers can understand the Septuagint's place in Judeo-Christian history as well as in the church today.

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Crossway

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1433570556

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Chronicles and Exodus

An Analogy and Its Application

By: William Johnstone

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Chronicles and Exodus

An Analogy and Its Application

By: William Johnstone

This collection of inter-related essays argues that the way in which Chronicles incorporates and develops material from Samuel-Kings offers an analogy for the way in which the final edition of Exodus was produced. Embedded within the text of Exodus there is an earlier Deuteronomistic version recoverable from the reminiscences of the exodus in Deuteronomy. This, it is suggested, is the most objective method available for recreating the literary history of Exodus and must constitute the first stage in any analysis of Exodus. Already, it produces some surprisingly radical results."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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A&C Black

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1850758816

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How the Bible Became a Book

The Textualization of Ancient Israel

By: William M. Schniedewind

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How the Bible Became a Book

The Textualization of Ancient Israel

By: William M. Schniedewind

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.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521829461

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Who Really Wrote the Bible

The Story of the Scribes

By: William M. Schniedewind

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The Story of the Scribes

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Princeton University Press

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The Finger of the Scribe

The Beginnings of Scribal Education and How It Shaped the Hebrew Bible

By: William M. Schniedewind

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The Beginnings of Scribal Education and How It Shaped the Hebrew Bible

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190052465

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Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada

By: George Rothwell Brown,William M. Stewart

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Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada

By: George Rothwell Brown,William M. Stewart

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Book's by William M. Schniedewind

Society and the Promise to David

Society and the Promise to David

Who Really Wrote the Bible

Who Really Wrote the Bible

A Primer on Ugaritic

A Primer on Ugaritic

A Social History of Hebrew

A Social History of Hebrew

The Finger of the Scribe

The Finger of the Scribe

The Word of God in Transition

The Word of God in Transition

The Septuagint

The Septuagint

Chronicles and Exodus

Chronicles and Exodus

How the Bible Became a Book

How the Bible Became a Book

Who Really Wrote the Bible

Who Really Wrote the Bible

The Finger of the Scribe

The Finger of the Scribe

Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada

Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada

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