Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible by Karel van der Toorn

Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible

Karel van der Toorn

401 pages first pub 2007 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective slow-paced
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We think of the Hebrew Bible as the Book—and yet it was produced by a largely nonliterate culture in which writing, editing, copying, interpretation, and public reading were the work of a professional elite. The scribes of ancient Israel are indee...

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