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The Invention of Hebrew (Traditions) Book
Addressing the people of Israel through a vernacular literature Hebrew texts gained the ability to address their audience as a public. By comparing Biblical documents with related ancient texts in Hebrew Ugaritic and Babylonian this book details ways in which Hebrew was a powerfully self-conscious political language.Read More
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Book Description
The Invention of Hebrew is the first book to approach the Bible in light of recent findings on the use of the Hebrew alphabet as a deliberate and meaningful choice. 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 gained the ability to address their audience as a public. By comparing Biblical documents with related ancient texts in Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Babylonian, this book details distinct ways in which Hebrew was a powerfully self-conscious political language. Revealing the enduring political stakes of Biblical writing, The Invention of Hebrew demonstrates how Hebrew assumed and promoted a source of power previously unknown in written literature: "the people" as the protagonist of religion and politics.
- 0252032845
- 9780252032844
- Seth Sanders
- 6 January 2010
- University of Illinois Press
- Hardcover (Book)
- 280
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