The formation of the Hebrew Bible
Subtitle: a new reconstruction
By: David M. Carr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780199742608
Subjects: Evidences, authority; Bible; Canon
Description: David Carr rethinks both the methods and historical orientation points for research into the growth of the Hebrew Bible into its present form.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-502) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Variants and evidence of oral-written transmission of Israelite literature; title: Documented cases of transmission history, Part 1: two cases; title: Documented cases of transmission history, Part 2: broader trends; title: From documented growth to method in reconstruction of growth; title: The Hasmonean period: finalization of scripture in an increasingly Greek world; title: The Hellenistic period up to the Hasmonean monarchy: priestly and Diaspora textuality; title: Bible for exiles: the reshaping of stories about Israel's earliest history; title: Textuality under empire: reflexes of Neo-Assyrian domination; title: From the neo-Assyrian to Hasmonean periods: preliminary conclusions and outlook; title: Early highland states and evidence for literary textuality in them; title: Royal psalms: locating Judah and Israel's early pro-royal literature; title: Proverbs and Israel's early oral-written curriculum; title: Other supposedly Solomonic books: Song of Songs and Qohelet; title: Other Biblical texts potentially from the early monarchal period; title: Toward a new picture of early monarchal texts in the Hebrew Bible.