Quratulain’s Reviews > How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel > Status Update
Quratulain
is on page 126 of 272
“…part of the editorial framework of the Book of Deuteronomy that ties it with the Book of Joshua and into a larger narrative that scholars have called the Deuteronomistic History. This editing of the Bible is probably taking place in the late Persian or Hellenistic period.”
— Oct 09, 2024 09:31AM
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Quratulain
is on page 190 of 272
“The control of writing resides among the temple and political elites. Those who had a vested interest in the shift of authority from the oral tradition to the written text were also those who controlled the means of production of the written word.”
— Oct 11, 2024 09:58AM
Quratulain
is on page 190 of 272
“In the Persian and early Hellenistic periods, the writing of biblical literature comes to an end.”
— Oct 11, 2024 09:56AM
Quratulain
is on page 189 of 272
“There is a strong Jewish tradition that prophecy ended with the destruction of the Temple in 586 BCE.
— Oct 11, 2024 09:53AM
Quratulain
is on page 186 of 272
“They also omit what seems irrelevant or does not advance their interests.”
— Oct 11, 2024 09:45AM
Quratulain
is on page 186 of 272
“Chronicles makes additions in a few places as it suits the purposes of the Jerusalem priesthood of the Persian period.”
— Oct 11, 2024 09:45AM
Quratulain
is on page 180 of 272
“Biblical literature and Jewish literature has historical gaps. The biggest gap is from the 6th-2nd century BCE….After Babylonian exile things get sketchy.”
— Oct 11, 2024 09:36AM
Quratulain
is on page 177 of 272
“By the third century BCE, the Hebrew Bible began to be translated into Greek by the Jewish community in Alexandria- Septuagint
— Oct 11, 2024 09:28AM
Quratulain
is on page 177 of 272
“Until the mid-third century BCE practically no evidence exists of writing in Hebrew (apart from the Bible).
— Oct 11, 2024 09:27AM
Quratulain
is on page 176 of 272
Script is often ideologically and theologically loaded.”
— Oct 11, 2024 09:24AM
Quratulain
is on page 176 of 272
“When inscriptions in the Hebrew language do begin to appear in numbers during the Hasmonean and Roman periods (2nd century BCE) it is usually the Hebrew language written with Aramaic letters.”
— Oct 11, 2024 09:24AM
