Invention of Hebrew

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252032844

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By Seth L. Sanders
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Preface; Dedication; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Modernity's Ghosts: The Bible as Political Communication; What was the Alphabet for?; Empires and Alphabets in Late Bronze Age Canaan; The Invention of Hebrew in Iron Age Israel; C

''An absolutely innovative way of reading the use of ancient Hebrew for generating political identity and for understanding the Hebrew Bible itself. It is refreshing to see such profound insight and analyses come out of material that has otherwise not received substantial recognition of its cultural and political importance.'' Mark S. Smith, author of God in Translation: Deities in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Biblical World ''S. Brings anthropology and epigraphy together in an original and stimulating way, seeking to discern the roots of biblical texts by exploring the contexts and development of writing in the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages...This wide-ranging, extensively annotated book deserves careful study and offers much of value to OT scholars.'' A. R. Millard Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

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