Oral Tradition in Ancient Israel by Miller, Robert D., II

Oral Tradition in Ancient Israel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498213677)

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Oral Tradition in Ancient Israel by Miller, Robert D., II

Oral Tradition in Ancient Israel

$42.00
Oral Tradition in Ancient Israel by Miller, Robert D., II

Oral Tradition in Ancient Israel

$42.00
Format: Hardcover
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Providing a comprehensive study of "oral tradition" in Israel, this volume unpacks the nature of oral tradition, the form it would have taken in ancient Israel, and the remains of it in the narrative books of the Hebrew Bible. The author presents cases of oral/written interaction that provide the best ethnographic analogies for ancient Israel and insights from these suggest a model of transmission in oral-written societies valid for ancient Israel. Miller reconstructs what ancient Israelite oral literature would have been and considers criteria for identifying orally derived material in the narrative books of the Old Testament, marking several passages as highly probable oral derivations. Using ethnographic data and ancient Near Eastern examples, he proposes performance settings for this material. The epilogue treats the contentious topic of historicity and shows that orally derived texts are not more historically reliable than other texts in the Bible.

Author: Robert D. II Miller
ISBN-10: 1498213677
ISBN-13: 9781498213677
Publisher: Cascade Books
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2011
Pages: 170
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
By Robert D. II Miller
By Robert D. II Miller
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Robert D. Miller II, SFO, is Associate Professor of Old Testament at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He is the author of Chieftains of the Highland Clans and Syriac and Antiochian Exegesis and Biblical Theology for the 3rd Millennium.

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