How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel

How the Bible Became a Book combines recent archaeological discoveries in the Middle East with insights culled from the history of writing to address how the Bible was written and evolved into sacred Scripture. Written for general readers as well as scholars, the book provides rich insight into how these texts came to possess the authority of Scripture and explores why Ancient Israel, an oral culture, began to write literature. It describes an emerging literate society in ancient Israel that challenges the assertion that literacy first arose in Greece during the fifth century BCE. Hb ISBN (2004) 0-521-82946-1

Author: William M. Schniedewind
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/10/2004
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.34w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780521829465

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/08/2004 pg. 71
Choice 12/01/2004 pg. 680

About the Author
Schniedewind, William M.: - Professor William M. Schniedewind chairs the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and is a Professor of Biblical Studies at UCLA. He has been a fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Hebrew University. He received his PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies in 1992 at Brandeis University. He is most recently the author of Society and the Promise to David, published in 1999.

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