In The Formation of the Hebrew Bible David Carr rethinks both the methods and orientation points for research into the growth of the Hebrew Bible. The method is a ''methodologically modest'' investigation drawing criteria, aims and models from Carr's survey of documented examples of textual revision. The result is a radically new picture of the formation of the Hebrew Bible from the tenth to the first centuries BCE. In The Formation of the Hebrew Bible David Carr rethinks both the methods and historical orientation points for research into the growth of the Hebrew Bible into its present form. Building on his prior work, Writing on the Tablet of the Heart (Oxford, 2005), he explores both the possibilities and limits of reconstruction of pre-stages of the Bible. The method he advocates is a ''methodologically modest'' investigation of those pre-stages, utilizing criteria andmodels derived from his survey of documented examples of textual revision in the Ancient Near East. The result is a new picture of the formation of the Hebrew Bible, with insights on the initial emergence of Hebrew literary textuality, the development of the first Hexateuch, and the final formation of the Hebrew Bible. Where some have advocated dating the bulk of the Hebrew Bible in a single period, whether relatively early (Neo-Assyrian) or late (Persian or Hellenistic), Carr uncovers specific evidence that the Hebrew Bible contains texts dating across Israelite history, even the early pre-exilic period (10th-9th centuries). He traces the impact of Neo-Assyrian imperialism on eighth and seventh century Israelite textuality. He uses studies of collective trauma to identify marks of the reshaping andcollection of traditions in response to the destruction of Jerusalem and Babylonian exile. He develops a picture of varied Priestly reshaping of narrative and prophetic traditions in the Second Temple period, including the move toward eschatological and apocalyptic themes and genres. And he uses manuscriptevidence from Qumran and the Septuagint to find clues to the final literary shaping of the proto-Masoretic text, likely under the Hasmonean monarchy. Introduction: The Oral-Written Model and the Formation of the Hebrew BiblePart One: Methodological Prologue: Textual Transmission in the Ancient World and How to Reconstruct ItChapter One: Memory Variants and Evidence of Oral-Written Transmission of Israelite LiteratureChapter Two: Documented Cases of Transmission History, Part 1: Two CasesChapter Three: Documented Cases of Transmission History, Part 2: Broader TrendsChapter Four: From Documented Growth to Method in Reconstruction of GrowthPart Two: Excavating the History of the Formation of the Hebrew BibleChapter Five: The Hasmonean Period: Finalization of Scripture in an Increasingly Greek WorldChapter Six: The Hellenistic Period up to the Hasmonean Monarchy: Priestly and Diaspora TextualityChapter Seven: The Persian Period: Textuality of Persian-Sponsored ReturneesChapter Eight: The Babylonian Period: Trauma, Exile and the Transition to Post-Monarchal TextualityChapter Nine: Bible for Exiles: The Reshaping of Stories about Israel's Earliest HistoryChapter Ten: Textuality Under Empire: Reflexes of Neo-Assyrian DominationChapter Eleven: From the Neo-Assyrian to Hasmonean Periods: Preliminary Conclusions and OutlookPart Three: The Shape of Literary Textuality in the Early Pre-Exilic PeriodChapter Twelve: Early States in the Highlands of Judah-Israel and Evidence for Literary Textuality in ThemChapter Thirteen: Royal Psalms: Locating Judah and Israel's Early Pro-Royal LiteratureChapter Fourteen: Proverbs and Israel's Early Oral-Written CurriculumChapter Fifteen: Other Supposedly Solomonic Books: Song of Songs and QoheletChapter Sixteen: Other Biblical Texts Potentially from the Early Monarchal PeriodChapter Seventeen: Toward a New Picture of Early Monarchal Texts in the Hebrew BibleAfterwordSelect BibliographySelect Index of Primary Text CitationsIndex of Subjects
- ISBN: 978-0-19-974260-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 608
- Fecha Publicación: 03/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés