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Seth L. Sanders connects the Bible's distinctive linguistic form--writing down a local spoken language--to a cultural desire to speak directly to people, summoning them to join a new community that the text itself helped call into being. Addressing the people of Israel through a vernacular literature, Hebrew texts reimagined their audience as a public. By comparing Biblical documents with related ancient texts in Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Babylonian, this book shows Hebrew's distinctiveness as a self-conscious political language. Illuminating the enduring stakes of Biblical writing, Sanders demonstrates how Hebrew assumed and promoted a source of power previously unknown in written literature: "the people" as the protagonist of religion and politics.
Seth L. Sanders connects the Bible's distinctive linguistic form--writing down a local spoken language--to a cultural desire to speak directly to people, summoning them to join a new community that the text itself helped call into being. Addressing the people of Israel through a vernacular literature, Hebrew texts reimagined their audience as a public. By comparing Biblical documents with related ancient texts in Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Babylonian, this book shows Hebrew's distinctiveness as a self-conscious political language. Illuminating the enduring stakes of Biblical writing, Sanders demonstrates how Hebrew assumed and promoted a source of power previously unknown in written literature: "the people" as the protagonist of religion and politics.
Preface xi
Acknowlegments xv
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction 1
1. Modernity's Ghosts: The Bible as Political Communication 13
2. What Was the Alphabet For? 36
3. Empires and Alphabets in Late Bronze Age Canaan 76
4. The Invention of Hebrew in Iron Age Israel 103
Conclusion 157
Notes 173
Bibliography 225
Index 251
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780252078354 |
| ISBN-10: | 0252078357 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Sanders, Seth L. |
| Auflage: | 1st Edition |
| Hersteller: | University of Illinois Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk |
| Abbildungen: | 14 black & white photographs, 2 tables |
| Maße: | 15 x 152 x 229 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Seth L. Sanders |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 28.06.2011 |
| Gewicht: | 0,426 kg |
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