The ascension of authorship
Subtitle: attribution and canon formation in Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian traditions
By: Jed Wyrick
Series: Harvard studies in comparative literature -- 49
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
Subjects: Religious literature -- Authorship; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-488) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The scribes of the Hebrew Bible; title: Attaching names to biblical books; title: The Jewish critique of Greek letters; title: Biblical and Homeric textualization according to Josephus; title: Peisistratus and Ptolemy; title: Aristotle and Ezra; title: From canon to authorship; title: Conclusion