How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521829465)

How the Bible Became a Book combines recent archaeological discoveries in the Middle East with insights culled from the history of writing to address how the Bible was written and evolved into sacred Scripture. Written for general readers as well as scholars, the book provides rich insight into how these texts came to possess the authority of Scripture and explores why Ancient Israel, an oral culture, began to write literature. It describes an emerging literate society in ancient Israel that challenges the assertion that literacy first arose in Greece during the fifth century BCE. Hb ISBN (2004) 0-521-82946-1

Author: William M. Schniedewind
ISBN-10: 0521829461
ISBN-13: 9780521829465
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2004
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.34w x 0.74d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/08/2004 pg. 71
Choice 12/01/2004 pg. 680