The Invention of Hebrew
by Sanders, Seth L
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- Hardcover
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- Hardcover, 24 cm, 258 pp. The Invention of Hebrew is the first book to approach the Bible in light of recent epigraphic discover
- ISBN 10
- 0252032845
- ISBN 13
- 9780252032844
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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. Hardcover, 24 cm, 258 pp. The Invention of Hebrew is the first book to approach the Bible in light of recent epigraphic discoveries on the extreme antiquity of the alphabet and its use as a deliberate and meaningful choice. Hebrew was more than just a way of transmitting information; it was a vehicle of political symbolism and self-representation. 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. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 9780252032844. .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Title
- The Invention of Hebrew
- Author
- Sanders, Seth L
- Book Condition
- Used - Hardcover, 24 cm, 258 pp. The Invention of Hebrew is the first book to approach the Bible in light of recent epigraphic discover
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0252032845
- ISBN 13
- 9780252032844
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana
- Date Published
- 2009
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